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Mieres
Sign in to saveMieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baíña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, Santullano, Santa Rosa, Seana, Ujo, Urbiés, Valdecuna, Santa Cruz, Ablaña, Turón, Gallegos, Bustiello.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mieres
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
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- Mieres del camin desde La Quinta.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Mieres del Camín, seat of the municipality.
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- Flag of Mieres.png
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- Escudo_de_Mieres.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 150
- Settlement.shield_size
- 75
- Settlement.image_map
- Mieres Asturies map.svg
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- Location of Mieres in Asturias.
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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
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- Asturias
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- Comarca
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- Caudal
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Mieres
- Demonym
- mierense
- Population
- 36132
- Area
- 146.03
- Elevation
- 386
- Official website
- www.mieres.es
- Image
- Casa'l conceyu mieres.jpg
- Households
- 18333
- Licence plate code
- O
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- Commons category
- Mieres
- postal code
- 33600
- female population
- 19944
- male population
- 18015
- P8168
- Adam Pastor
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Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baíña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, Santullano, Santa Rosa, Seana, Ujo, Urbiés, Valdecuna, Santa Cruz, Ablaña, Turón, Gallegos, Bustiello.
== History== Mieres is the heart of the coal mining industry in Spain. The topography of Mieres is mountainous with the greatest population centers being located in the valley along the banks of the Caudal River (Río Caudal) valley in the center of Asturias. Before the Spanish Industrial Restructuring Mieres was one of the industrial backbones of Asturias, and hosted 70000 inhabitants in the 1960s. Today Mieres shelters a campus of the University of Oviedo and different museums in relation with the industrial heritage.
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