Colunga

Colunga
Colunga
Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms
	Colunga Location in Spain
	Coordinates: 43°29′10″N 5°16′13″W / 43.48611°N 5.27028°W
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 ()
Demonym	colungués / colunguesa
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	33320 - 33340
Website	Official website

Colunga (Spanish pronunciation: [koˈluŋɡa]) 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.

Politics

Elecciones municipales
Partido	1979	1983	1987^[2]	1991^[2]	1995^[2]	1999^[2]	2003^[2]	2007^[2]	2011^[3]	2015^[2]
PSOE		4	4	3	5	3	4	6	6	6
CD / AP / PP	4	4	5	7	6	6	4	5	3	4
FAC									2	1
PCE / IU-BA / IU-The Greens			2	1		1	1	0	0	0
UCD / CDS	6	5	2	0			2
Agrupación Independiente por Colunga				2
Electores por Colunga					2
URAS / URAS-PAS						1	0	0
Independents	3
Total	13	13	13	13	13	11	11	11	11	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

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Anchovy beaching incident

On September 29, 2006, millions of anchovies, constituting a weight of over three tons, 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."^[4]