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Boiro is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is located in the comarca of Barbanza. Boiro has an area of 86.58 km2.

Key facts

Settlement.settlement_type
municipality
Settlement.official_name
Concello de Boiro
Settlement.nickname
Boiro
Settlement.image_skyline
Concello Boiro dende estrada (5).jpg
Settlement.image_shield
Boiro.svg
Settlement.image_map
Situacion_Boiro.PNG
Settlement.map_caption
Location of Boiro within Galicia
Settlement.subdivision_type
Parroquias
Settlement.subdivision_name
8
Settlement.leader_title
Alcalde (Mayor)
Settlement.leader_name
Xosé Deira Triñanes (BNG)
Settlement.area_total_km2
86
Settlement.timezone
CET
Settlement.utc_offset
+1
Settlement.timezone_DST
CEST
Settlement.utc_offset_DST
+2
Settlement.website
Concello de Boiro website

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Boiro is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is located in the comarca of Barbanza. Boiro has an area of 86.58 km2.

Boiro was where the controversial assisted suicide of quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro took place. The town was later used as a setting for the 2004 film Mar Adentro, chronicling Sampedro's later life.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boiro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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