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Grandas de Salime
Municipality
Coat of arms
Grandas de SalimeLocation in Spain
Coordinates: 43°13′N 6°52′W / 43.217°N 6.867°W / 43.217; -6.867
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Asturias
Province	Asturias
Comarca	Eo-Navia
Judicial district	Castropol
Capital	Grandas
Government
• Alcalde	Eustaquio Revilla Villegas (PSOE)
Area
• Total	112.55 km (43.46 sq mi)
Highest elevation	1,204 m (3,950 ft)
Population
• Total	853
• Density	7.6/km (20/sq mi)
Demonym	grandaleses
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	33730 to 33739
Official language(s)	Spanish, Eonavian
Website	Official website

Grandas de Salime is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is famous for its hydroelectric dam across the Navia River, forming the Embalse de Salime (reservoir of Salime). It is also famous for being a stop along the Camino Primitivo path of the Camino de Santiago, where it is the last stretch of Asturian land before the entrance into Galicia through the Acebo Pass.

The municipality is situated in the interior of the eastern region of Asturias, bordered on the south by the Galician province of Lugo, on the north by the Asturian municipalities of Santa Eulalia de Oscos, San Martín de Oscos, Pesoz and Allande. The village has an ethnographic museum which occupies the former governing house of Grandas. Geologically, the region is dominated by deposits of shale and quartzite.

The hydroelectric dam turned 50 years old in 2004. Its inside is adorned with a large mural by the architect of the dam, Joaquin Vaquero Palacios.

Parishes

• Grandas
• La Mesa
• Negueira
• Peñafuente
• Trabada
• Villarpedre
• Vitos

Famous people

• Manuel Abad y Queipo, religious figure and minister of the 18th century.
• Pepe el Ferreiro, founder of the Ethnographic Museum of Grandas of Salime.

References

1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
2. "Historia del Municipio". Grandas De Salime (in Spanish).

External links

• Ayuntamiento de Grandas de Salime (in Spanish)
• Etapa del Camino de Santiago (in Spanish)
• Federación Asturiana de Concejos (in Spanish)
• Guia del Occidente. Grandas de Salime (in Spanish)
• Estado del Embalse de Salime (in Spanish)

v t e Parishes in Grandas de Salime, Asturias, Spain
A Mesa Grandas Negueira Penafonte Trabada Villarpedre Vitos

v t e Municipalities in Asturias
Allande Aller Amieva Avilés Belmonte de Miranda Bimenes Boal Cabrales Cabranes Candamo Cangas de Onís Cangas del Narcea Caravia Carreño Caso Castrillón Castropol Coaña Colunga Corvera de Asturias Cudillero Degaña El Franco Gijón Gozón Grado Grandas de Salime Ibias Illano Illas Langreo Laviana Lena Llanera Llanes Mieres Morcín Muros de Nalón Nava Navia Noreña Onís Oviedo Parres Peñamellera Alta Peñamellera Baja Pesoz Piloña Ponga Pravia Proaza Quirós Las Regueras Ribadedeva Ribadesella Ribera de Arriba Riosa Salas San Martín de Oscos San Martín del Rey Aurelio San Tirso de Abres Santa Eulalia de Oscos Santo Adriano Sariego Siero Sobrescobio Somiedo Soto del Barco Tapia de Casariego Taramundi Teverga Tineo Valdés Vegadeo Villanueva de Oscos Villaviciosa Villayón Yernes y Tameza

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