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Boiro
Sign in to saveBoiro is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is located in the comarca of Barbanza. Boiro has an area of 86.58 km2.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- municipality
- Settlement.official_name
- Concello de Boiro
- Settlement.nickname
- Boiro
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Concello Boiro dende estrada (5).jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Boiro.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Situacion_Boiro.PNG
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Boiro within Galicia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Parroquias
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 8
- Settlement.leader_title
- Alcalde (Mayor)
- Settlement.leader_name
- Xosé Deira Triñanes (BNG)
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 86
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- CEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +2
- Settlement.website
- Concello de Boiro website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Galicia
- Part of
- A Barbanza
- Official name
- Boiro
- Demonym
- boirense
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- A Coruña Province
- Population
- 18967
- Area
- 86
- Elevation
- 32
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Shares border with
- Rianxo
- Official website
- www.boiro.org
- Image
- Barraña Boiro Galicia Spain GDFL017.jpg
- Licence plate code
- C
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- topic's main category
- Category:Boiro
- Commons category
- Boiro
- postal code
- 15930
- Commons gallery
- Boiro
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- male population
- 9177
- female population
- 9661
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Encyclopedic overview
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Boiro is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is located in the comarca of Barbanza. Boiro has an area of 86.58 km2.
Boiro was where the controversial assisted suicide of quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro took place. The town was later used as a setting for the 2004 film Mar Adentro, chronicling Sampedro's later life.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boiro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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