Colunga () is a municipality in the Autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It lies on the Cantabrian Sea, and is bordered to the west by Villaviciosa, to the south by Parres and Piloña, and to the east by Caravia.
Politics Partido 1979 1983 1987Dirección General de Política Interior 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011Elecciones Locales 2011 2015 PSOE 4 4 3 5 3 4 6 6 6 CD / AP / PP 4 4 5 7 6 6 4 5 3 4 FAC 2 1 PCE / IU-BA / IU-The Greens 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 UCD / CDS 6 5 2 0 2 Agrupación Independiente por Colunga 2 Electores por Colunga 2 URAS / URAS-PAS 1 0 0 Independents 3 Total 13 13 13 13 13 11 11 11 11 11
Parishes Carrandi Colunga Gobiendes La Isla La Llera La Riera LlastresLliberdón Llue Pernús Pivierda Sales San Xuan de Duz
Parish of Colunga The capital of the municipality is the parish with the same name. Its population is 1,132 (INE 2007) and it is divided in five villages: Cimavilla, El Ferreru, Friera, Loreto and El Sorriberu.
Demography
Anchovy beaching incident On September 29, 2006, millions of anchovies, constituting a weight of over three tons, beached themselves near Colunga. Tests on the dead fish did not detect any toxic chemical that could have caused the beaching, and the current working theory is that the shoal beached itself trying to escape from "hungry dolphins or tuna." If the beached specimens had grown to maturity, it would have been more than "100 tons of potential breeders."
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See also List of municipalities in Asturias
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References Populationsdata INE Postalcodes Altitdude Google Earth
External links
www.llastres.com foros de lastres Federación Asturiana de Concejos Portal sobre el concejo