Coelleira
Sign in to saveIlla Coelleira, or Colleira (Spanish: Isla Conejera, literal translation: '''Rabbits' Island'''), is a small island located in the mouth of the Barqueiro river, off the town of Viveiro, in the Rias Altas coastal region of Galicia, Spain. The island is part of O Vicedo municipality. It is known best as the site of a former monastery, and today houses a lighthouse to aid navigation.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Coelleira
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- Illa Coelleira 4IX2015 (cropped).jpg
- Islands.image_size
- 280px
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- Spain
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- yes
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- Location in Spain
- Islands.area_km2
- 0.26
- Islands.elevation_m
- 80
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- Autonomous community
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- Galicia
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- Province
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- Lugo
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- Municipality
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_3
- O Vicedo
- Islands.population
- 0
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Illa Coelleira, or Colleira (Spanish: Isla Conejera, literal translation: '''Rabbits' Island'''), is a small island located in the mouth of the Barqueiro river, off the town of Viveiro, in the Rias Altas coastal region of Galicia, Spain. The island is part of O Vicedo municipality. It is known best as the site of a former monastery, and today houses a lighthouse to aid navigation.
==Name== The island's Galician name, Illa Coelleira, means "island of the rabbits", a reference to the numerous rabbits that today inhabit the otherwise bare island. Documents show its name in the 11th century as Quonicularia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coelleira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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