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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
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Candamu
- Demonym
- candamines
- Population
- 1902
- Area
- 71.97
- Official website
- www.ayto-candamo.es
- Image
- Aytocandamo.jpg
- Licence plate code
- O
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- postal code
- 33829
- Commons category
- Candamo
- native label
- Candamu
- female population
- 997
- male population
- 950
- P8168
- Roger Fenton
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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.
==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.
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