Belmonte de Miranda
Miranda

(In detail) (In detail)
Principality of Asturias
Demonym  • Spanish	belmontino/a
Capital	Belmonte
Coordinates	43°10′N 7°24′W
Judicial district	Grado
Parishes	15
Population (2005)  • Total  • Density  • % of Asturias	Rank: 47 2,018 inhabitants 9.80 people/km² 0.18 %
Area  • Total  • % of Asturias	Rank: 19 206 km² 1.94 %
Highest point	Pico L'Urru 1,527 m
Postcode	33830
Mayor	Roberto Pérez López (PSOE)
Town council
Political parties
Website	http://www.belmontedemiranda.com/

Belmonte de Miranda (Asturian: Miranda) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Salas, on the east by Grado, to the south by Somiedo and Teverga, and on the west by Tineo. Image File history File links Sin_bandera. ... Image File history File links Sin_escudo. ... Capital Oviedo Area  – Total  – % of Spain Ranked 10th  10 604 km²  2,1% Population  – Total (2003)  – % of Spain  – Density Ranked 12th  1 056 789  2,5%  99,65/km² Demonym  – English  – Spanish  Asturian  asturiano/a, astur Statute of Autonomy January 11, 1982 ISO 3166-2 O Parliamentary representation  – Congress seats... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... Parish Hall of St. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... World map of the population density in 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Categories: | | ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... UK and Australian postal codes are known as postcodes. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español or PSOE) is one of the main parties of Spain. ... In the United Kingdom, town councils are civil parish councils, where the civil parish is a town. ... A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... Asturian, Leonese, Astur-Leonese or Bable (Asturianu in Asturian, Llïonés in Leonese) is a Romance language spoken in some parts of the provinces of Asturias, León, Zamora and Salamanca in Spain, and in the area of Miranda de Douro in Portugal (where it is officially recognized as... Spains fifty provinces (provincias) are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades aut nomas), in addition to two African autonomous cities (ciudades aut nomas) (Ceuta and Melilla). ... Capital Oviedo Area  – Total  – % of Spain Ranked 10th  10 604 km²  2,1% Population  – Total (2003)  – % of Spain  – Density Ranked 12th  1 056 789  2,5%  99,65/km² Demonym  – English  – Spanish  Asturian  asturiano/a, astur Statute of Autonomy January 11, 1982 ISO 3166-2 O Parliamentary representation  – Congress seats... SALAS, or SAN MARTIN DE SALAS, a town of southern Spain, in the province of Oviedo; on the road from Tineo to Grado, and on a small sub-tributary of the river Narcea. ... Tineo is a town of northern Spain, in the province of Oviedo, Asturias on a small tributary of the river Narcea. ...

Geography

The municipality is crossed from south to north by the basin of the river Pigüeña, a trout-rich tributary of the Narcea, the river which forms the northern border with Salas, and which is usually fished for salmon.

The southeast part of the municipality forms part of the National Park of Somiedo. In it are a great variety of native forest species: oaks, chestnuts, and so forth. Here the fauna is varied and abundant, including wolves, foxes, badgers, roe deer, boars, and brown bear.

Demography

The inhabitants of the municipality are in 66 principal villages divided into 15 parishes, the largest of which is Belmonte, with 32.1 km². Principe di Belmonte or Prince Belmonte is the name and senior title of an Italian dynasty, tracing its roots back to the 11th Century. ...

Like many of the municipalities in the mountains of Asturias, Belmonte de Miranda is losing population. At the turn of the twentieth century, it numbered over 7000. Emigration was a major cause of population decline, especially in the 1940s. In the final decades of the twentieth century, the population of the capital seems to have become fixed at around 800.

Economy

Agriculture is the most developed economic activity in the region. It is done on small ranches and many of the ranchers are of advanced age, which endangers the future of the enterprise. In the industrial sector, the most notable company is Río Narcea Gold Mines. Nearly a third of the population works in the service sector, especially in the burgeoning hospitality businesses.

Famous people

• P. José Alvarez Fernandez O.P. (May 16, 1890 - October 19, 1970), Dominican missionary, active in the Amazon for 53 years, until his death in Lima.
• Alvaro de Cienfuegos y Sierra (February 27, 1657 - August 19, 1739), cardinal and archbishop of Rome.
• Xose Alvarez Fernandez Pin (1948-), Asturian writer, known for his works El bable de Xuanín ia outrus cuentus (1980) and Fíos de nadie (1981).
• Ángeles Villarta, writer, journalist, and director
• Celso Alvarez Alvarez, forensic doctor, ex-director of the Service of Internal Medicine at the Hospital Covadonga and the Hospital Central de Asturias in Oviedo.

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Parishes

Parish Hall of St. ...

External links

• Federación Asturiana de Concejos (Spanish)
• Belmontedemiranda.net (Spanish)

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