Grandas de Salime

Infobox Asturian municipality


capital= Grandas
judicial district= Castropol
parishes= 7
year= 2005
population= 1,186
population rank= 60
population percentage= 0.11
density= 6.55
area= 181
area rank= 23
area percentage= 1.71
highest point= Pedras Apañadas, 1,204
postcode= 33730 to 33739
mayor= José Cachafeiro Valladares
party= PP
website= http://www.grandasdesalime.net/

Grandas de Salime is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is famous for its hydroelectric dam, which is across the Navia River. It is also famous for being a stop along the Camino de Santiago, where it is the last stretch of Asturian land before the entrance into Galicia through the Acebo Pass.

The municipality is situated in the interior of the eastern region of Asturias, bordered on the south by the Galician province of Lugo, on the north by the Asturian municipalities of Santa Eulalia de Oscos, San Martín de Oscos, Pesoz and Allande. The village has an ethnographic museum which occupies the former governing house of Grandas. Geologically, the region is dominated by deposits of shale and quartzite.

The hydroelectric dam turned 50 years old in 2004. Its inside is adorned with a large mural.

Parishes

*Grandas de Salime
*La Mesa
*Negueira
*Peñafuente
*Trabada
*Villarpedre
*Vitos

Famous people

*Manuel Abad Queipo, religious figure and minister of the 18th century

External links

* [http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/fatcat/604/ci7acebo.htm Etapa del Camino de Santiago] es
* [http://www.facc.info/CONCEJOS/Grandas_de_Salime.htm Federación Asturiana de Concejos] es
* [http://www.asturoccidente.com/grandas.htm Guia del Occidente. Grandas de Salime] es
* [http://www.embalses.net/pantano-761-salime.html Estado del Embalse de Salime] es
* [http://www.asturiasenimagenes.com/full_fotast_029.htm Images of Grandas de Salime]