Colunga

Colunga
Colunga
Municipality
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Asturias
Province	Asturias
Comarca	Oriente
Judicial district	Villaviciosa
Capital	Colunga
Government
• Alcalde	José Rogelio Pando (PSOE)
Area
• Total	97.57 km2 (37.67 sq mi)
Highest elevation	1,159 m (3,802 ft)
Population
• Total	3,930
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Demonym	colungués / colunguesa
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	33320 - 33340
Website	Official website

Colunga is a municipality in the Autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It lies on the Cantabrian Sea, and is bordered to the west by Villaviciosa, to the south by Parres and Piloña, and to the east by Caravia.

Politic

	PSOE	PP	IU-BA	Others	Total
2003	4	4	1	2	11
2007	6	5	0	0	11

Parishes

Parish of Colunga

The capital of the municipality is the parish with the same name. Its population is 1,132 (INE 2007) and it is divided in five villages: Cimavilla, El Ferreru, Friera, Loreto and El Sorriberu.

Demography

Quelle: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España - grafische Aufarbeitung für Wikipedia

Anchovy beaching incident

On September 29, 2006, millions of anchovies, constituting a weight of over three tons, had beached themselves near Colunga. Tests on the dead fish did not detect any toxic chemical that could have caused the beaching, and the current working theory is that the shoal beached itself trying to escape from "hungry dolphins or tuna." If the beached specimens had grown to maturity, it would have been more than "100 tons of potential breeders."^[1]