Lugo Province

Lugo is a Spanish province, one of the four that make up the autonomous community of Galicia. It limits to the north with the Cantabrian Sea, to the west with the province of La Coruña, to the southwest with that of Pontevedra, to the south with the province of Orense and to the east with the Principality of Asturias and the province of León.

Although it is the largest of the four Galician provinces, it is the third in number of inhabitants (326,013 in 2021).

Its capital is Lugo and the main towns, apart from the capital, are Monforte de Lemos, Vivero, Villalba, Sarria and Foz.

The main rivers are the Sil and the Miño, which also runs through the province of Ourense and forms the border between the province of Pontevedra and Portugal, flowing into the Atlantic. On the Cantabrian coast it has many small rivers.

Demographics

The population of the province of Lugo has experienced a strong and continuous decline since the 40s of the 20th century, mainly motivated by low fertility, but also by emigration to the other coastal provinces of Galicia, to other provinces of Spain and abroad, mainly to Latin American countries such as Argentina or Uruguay.

Graphic of demographic evolution of the province of Lugo between 1842 and 2018

Source: Spanish National Statistical Institute - Graphical development by Wikipedia.

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  Population by municipality (2018)

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  Population density (2018)

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  Population growth from 1998 to 2008

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  Population growth between 2008 and 2018

Geography

Provincial boundary

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Interactive map — Lugo Province

Rías

The estuaries of the province of Lugo are part of the Rías Altas. From west to east they are:

Rivers

Cables

The best known are:

Municipalities

The following table shows all the municipalities in the province of Lugo as well as their population as of January 1, 2021:

No. Municipality Population (2021) 1 Lugo (Capital) 97 613 2 Monforte de Lemos 18 242 3 Vivero 15 312 4 Villalba 14 006 5 Sarria 13 257 6 Foz 10 078 7 Ribadeo 9871 8 Burela 9428 9 Chantada 8134 10 Guitiriz 5455 11 Otero de Rey 5216 12 Castro de Rey 5110 13 Cosper 4374 14 Cervo 4192 15 Friol 3682 16 Saviñao 3589 17 Monterroso 3562 18 Mondon 3480 19 Corgo 3440 20 Fonsagrada 3328 21 Quiroga 3151 22 King shovels 3316

No. Municipality Population (2021) 23 Jove 3360 24 Barreiros 3001 25 Begonte 2976 26 Pastoriza 2963 27 Becerre 2826 28 Taboada 2689 29 Guntín 2638 30 Castroverde 2592 31 ♪ 2551 32 Baralla 2445 33 Panton 2429 34 Abbot 2297 35 Sovereign 2243 36 New bridge 2207 37 Carballedo 2123 38 Lorenzana 2129 39 Golden Valley 1960 40 Antas de Ulla 1935 41 Germade 1768 42 Stop it. 1723 43 Meira 1731 44 Alfoz 1610 45 Vice-President 1657

No. Municipality Population (2021) 46 Puebla del Brollón 1615 47 Pol 1634 48 Rábade 1524 49 Indecent 1521 50 Boveda 1481 51 Puertomarin 1382 52 Paraamo 1347 53 Cervantes 1288 54 Samos 1222 55 Riotorto 1213 56 Baleira 1190 57 Worked 1114 58 Navia de Suarna 1041 59 The Nogales 1018 60 Folgoso de Caurel 989 61 Orol 984 62 Cebrero stone 943 63 Ribas de Sil 946 64 Muras 611 65 Triacaste it 627 66 Ribera de Piquín 513 67 Negueira de Muñiz 223

The municipalities of Castro de Rey and Otero de Rey are located in the metropolitan area of the city of Lugo, thus adding (and together with the municipalities of Rábade and Corgo) an area of 113,117 inhabitants as of 1/1/ 2018.

The province of Lugo is the 31st in Spain in which there is a higher percentage of inhabitants concentrated in its capital (29.59%, compared to 31.96% for the whole of Spain).

Communications

Aerial view of Monforte de Lemos station, the most important in the province

Road network

• A-6: Arteijo - La Coruña - Lugo - Ponferrada - Benavente - Medina del Campo - Madrid.
• N-634 (future A-8): Santiago de Compostela - Villalba - Ribadeo - Gijón - Santander - Bilbao - San Sebastián
• N-120 (A-76): Logroño - Burgos - León - Monforte de Lemos - Orense - Vigo
• CG-2.1: Lalin (AP-53) - Chantada - Monforte de Lemos
• CG-2.2: Lugo - Sarria - Monforte de Lemos
• CG-2.3: Vicedo - Vivero - Burela - San Ciprián
• N-547 (A-54): Santiago de Compostela - Mellid - Palas de Rey - Guntín (N-540)
• N-642 (A-82): Ferrol - Ortigueira - Vivero - Burela - Foz
• N-540 (A-56): Lugo - Guntín (N-547) - Chantada - Orense
• N-640: Vegadeo-Ribadeo (N-634) - Lugo - Lalín - Villagarcía de Arosa

Rail transport

• The Coruña-Palencia (Renfe) passing through Lugo, Sarria and Monforte de Lemos.
• Vigo-Orense-Monforte de Lemos (Renfe)
• Ferrol-Oviedo (FEVE) passing through Vivero, Burela, Foz and Ribadeo.

Air transportation

• Rozas airfield (Lugo)
• Airfield of Villaframil (Ribadeo)
• Northern Costa (Vivero)

Culture

Languages

The vast majority of its inhabitants speak Galician as their habitual and majority language. Some people, especially the older ones, are monolingual Galician. It is only possible to find mixed Galician and Spanish speaking nuclei in some of the nuclei with more than 10,000 inhabitants, which are generally few. Even in the capital, the vitality of the Galician language in conversations is very strong.

Several variants of Galician are spoken in the province of Lugo. However, they have the characteristic of being the closest isoglosses to Leonese and therefore also to the Castilian languages, which is why they present some phonetic and grammatical signs that are erroneously considered to be influences from Spanish or Leonese. However, the Galician of Lugo, especially in non-coastal areas, is probably one of the most genuine^{[citation required]} in all of Galicia, due to the almost zero influence^{[citation required]} history of Spanish in the rural population.