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Foz () is a town and municipality in the A Mariña Central comarca in the Galician province of Lugo. It has been historically linked to the Ancient Province of Mondoñedo and also linked to the arrival of Briton immigrants during the 5th and 6th centuries, fleeing by sea from the British Isles (see Bishop Maeloc, Britonia and San Martiño de Mondoñedo). It has 9800 inhabitants. It borders the coastal municipalities of Burela and Barreiros, and the inland municipalities of Lourenzá, Mondoñedo, O Valadouro, Alfoz, and Cervo.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Foz
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- Foz, Galicia (Spain).jpg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandera_de_Foz.svg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
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- Escudo de Foz.svg
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- Situacion_Foz.PNG
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- Location of Foz
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- Spain
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- Location in Spain
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- Country
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- Autonomous community
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Lugo
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- A Mariña Central
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Focego/focega, Focense
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Galicia
- Part of
- A Mariña Central
- Official name
- Foz
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Lugo Province
- Population
- 10329
- Area
- 100.29
- Elevation
- 5
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Cantabrian Sea
- Shares border with
- Barreiros
- Official website
- www.concellodefoz.es
- Image
- Foz, en Lugo (España).jpg
- Licence plate code
- LU
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- Category:Foz
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- Foz
- postal code
- 27780
- Commons gallery
- Foz
- male population
- 4863
- female population
- 5117
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Port of Foz
- International relations
- Twin towns – sister cities
- References
Foz () is a town and municipality in the A Mariña Central comarca in the Galician province of Lugo. It has been historically linked to the Ancient Province of Mondoñedo and also linked to the arrival of Briton immigrants during the 5th and 6th centuries, fleeing by sea from the British Isles (see Bishop Maeloc, Britonia and San Martiño de Mondoñedo). It has 9800 inhabitants. It borders the coastal municipalities of Burela and Barreiros, and the inland municipalities of Lourenzá, Mondoñedo, O Valadouro, Alfoz, and Cervo.
Foz is a coastal town on the shores of the Cantabrian Sea at the mouth of the river Masma, which forms the Foz estuary, with an approximate area of 100 km².
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Foz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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