Grandas de Salime

Grandas de Salime is a village in the hills of in northern Spain. It was briefly busy from 1946 to 1953 as a service base for constructing the Salime dam.
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  • Type: Locality with 1,000 residents
  • Description: municipality (concejo) in Asturias, Spain
  • Also known as: “33027” and “Grandas de Salime Municipality”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chao Samartín and Ethnographic Museum of Grandas de Salime.

Archaeological site
Photo: 19Tarrestnom65, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Castro located in the municipality of Grandas. It was founded in the Bronze Age, around the year 800 BCE. The castro was discovered in 1977.

Museum
Photo: MUSEO ETNOGRÁFICO DE GRANDAS DE SALIME, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Grandas de Salime Ethnographic Museum is a museum in Grandas de Salime, . It was founded by archaeologist José Naveiras Escanlar, also known as Pepe el Ferreiro, in 1984.

Town hall
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Padraira and Castro.

Hamlet
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet.

Hamlet
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet.

Hamlet
Photo: Xoacas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet.

Grandas de Salime

Latitude
43.2058° or 43° 12′ 21″ north
Longitude
-6.8982° or 6° 53′ 53″ west
Population
1,000
Elevation
654 metres (2,146 feet)
Open location code
8CMM6442+8P
Geo­Names ID
6359932
Wiki­data ID
Q695452
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Grandas de Salime” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Arabic: “جرانداس دي سالايم”
  • Arabic: “غرانداس دي ساليمي”
  • Aragonese: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Asturian: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Basque: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Catalan: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Cebuano: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Chechen: “Грандас-де-Салиме”
  • Chinese: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Chinese: “格兰达斯德萨利梅”
  • Chinese: “格蘭達斯德薩利梅”
  • Czech: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Dutch: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Dutch: “Grandas”
  • French: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Galician: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Georgian: “გრანდას-დე-სალიმე”
  • German: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Hungarian: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Interlingua: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Interlingue: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Italian: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Ladin: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Lombard: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Luxembourgish: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Malay: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Grandas de Salime”
  • Pampanga: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Persian: “گرانداس د سالیمه”
  • Polish: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Portuguese: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Russian: “Грандас-де-Салиме”
  • Slovak: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Spanish: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Swedish: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Tatar: “Грандас-де-Салиме”
  • Turkish: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Ukrainian: “Грандас-де-Саліме”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґрандас-де-Саліме”
  • Uzbek: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Uzbek: “Grandas-de-Salime”
  • Uzbek: “Грандас де Салиме”
  • Uzbek: “Грандас-де-Салиме”
  • Venetian: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Vietnamese: “Grandas de Salime”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Grandas de Salime”
  • Welsh: “Grandas de Salime”

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