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Candamu
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Candamo (Asturian: Candamu) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the east by Las Regueras, on the south by Grado, on the north by Illas, Castrillón and Soto del Barco, and on the west by Pravia and Salas.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Candamo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.native_name
- Candamu
- Settlement.image_flag
- Candamo flag.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Candamo.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 75
- Settlement.image_map
- Candamu Asturies map.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous community
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Asturias
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Avilés
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Judicial district
- Settlement.subdivision_name4
- Pravia
- Settlement.seat_type
- Capital
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- council of Asturies
- Official name
- Candamu
- Demonym
- candamines
- Country
- Spain
- Contains
- Grullos
- Population
- 1902
- Area
- 71.97
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Grado
- Official website
- www.ayto-candamo.es
- Image
- Aytocandamo.jpg
- Licence plate code
- O
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- postal code
- 33829
- lowest point
- Narcea River
- Commons category
- Candamo
- topic's main category
- Category:Candamo
- native label
- Candamu
- female population
- 997
- male population
- 950
- P8168
- Roger Fenton
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Coat of arms
- Parishes
- Politics
- Demography
- Points of interest
- See also
- References
- External links
Candamo (Asturian: Candamu) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the east by Las Regueras, on the south by Grado, on the north by Illas, Castrillón and Soto del Barco, and on the west by Pravia and Salas.
==History== Around Candamo and specially on the shores of the Rio Nalon many paleolithic artifacts have been found. The first documentation about Candamo is from the 11th century and was found in a Monastery archive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Candamu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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