Vilarmaior
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Vilarmaior
Villarmayor | |
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 Location of the municipal area in Galicia. | |
  Vilarmaior Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 43°20′26″N 8°9′20″W / 43.34056°N 8.15556°W | |
| Country | Spain |
| Autonomous community | Galicia |
| Province | A Coruña |
| Comarca | Betanzos |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Carlos Vázquez Quintián |
| Area | |
• Total | 30.35 km2 (11.72 sq mi) |
| Population (2025-01-01)[1] | |
• Total | 1,242 |
| • Density | 40.92/km2 (106.0/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | Official website |
Vilarmaior (Galician pronunciation: [biˌlaɾmaˈjoɾ]) is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Betanzos.
Geography
[edit]It is a small municipality of 30.35 km2 located in the Mariñas Orientales region. Its climate can be classified as oceanic-humid, typical of the northern Galician coast, and its lithology is similar to the rest of Galicia, with schists, gneissic granites, and granulated granites of two mica types. The highest points are found in the eastern part of the municipality: O Catasol at 440 m and O Seixo Grande at 375 m.
History
[edit]Contemporary History
[edit]The Municipality of Pontedeume integrated the territory of the "extinct"[2] Vilarmaior in 1868 and from 1877 to 1890, and then separated it when creating Vilarmaior.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ National Statistics Institute (13 December 2025). "Municipal Register of Spain of 2025".
- ↑ "Variaciones de los municipios de España desde 1842" [Changes in the municipalities of Spain since 1842] (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-06-26.
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