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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
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mieres del camin desde La Quinta.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Mieres del Camín, seat of the municipality.
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Mieres.png
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo_de_Mieres.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 150
- Settlement.shield_size
- 75
- Settlement.image_map
- Mieres Asturies map.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Mieres in Asturias.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous community
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Asturias
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Caudal
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- council of Asturies
- Official name
- Mieres
- Demonym
- mierense
- Country
- Spain
- Population
- 36132
- Area
- 146.03
- Elevation
- 386
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Aller
- Official website
- www.mieres.es
- Image
- Casa'l conceyu mieres.jpg
- Households
- 18333
- Licence plate code
- O
- Said to be same as
- Mieres
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- Commons category
- Mieres
- postal code
- 33600
- topic's main category
- Category:Mieres
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Mieres, Asturias
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Mieres, Asturias
- female population
- 19944
- male population
- 18015
- different from
- Mieres
- twinned administrative body
- Herstal
- P8168
- Adam Pastor
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Festivals
- Politics
- Parishes
- Notable residents
- Twin towns
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mieres” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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