Lugo (province)

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Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Asturias, León, Ourense, Pontevedra, and A Coruña, and by the Cantabrian Sea (Bay of Biscay ) .

Lugo Province
District	population
City of Lugo	26,959
Chantada	15,003
Fonsagrada	17,302
City of Mondoñedo	10,590
Monforte	12,912
Panton	12,988
Villalba	13,572
Vivero	12,843
Towns, Vilages and Hamlets	343,217
All the Province (Total):	465,386
(Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911)

The population is 361,782 (2002), of whom a quarter live in the capital, Lugo, which was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god Lugh (see Lyon) later Latinised as Lucus Augusti, and which became one of the three main important Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta (modern Braga and Astorga respectively).

It has 67 municipalities.

Lugo (province)

See also