Catoira
Catoira is a municipality in Galicia, Spain, located in the province of Pontevedra. It's known for the ruins of the Torres do Oeste, a fortification built in the Early Middle Ages as a defense against Viking attacks.
- Type: Locality with 3,480 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “36010”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oeste Towers and Catoira (train station).
Oeste Towers
Archaeological site
The Oeste Towers are the ruins of a medieval castle in Catoira, Galicia, Spain, located at the head of the Ría de Arousa, in the river Ulla estuary. The towers remaining today are the ruins of Castellum Honesti, and played an important role in the defense of Santiago de Compostela from Viking attacks.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Catoira and A Ponte.
Catoira
- Category: municipality of Galicia
- Location: Pontevedra, Galicia, Green Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.663° or 42° 39′ 47″ north
Longitude
-8.7217° or 8° 43′ 18″ west
Population
3,480
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Open location code
8CJHM77H+68
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Catoira” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Catoira”
- Arabic: “كاتويرا”
- Aragonese: “Catoira”
- Asturian: “Catoira”
- Basque: “Catoira”
- Catalan: “Catoira”
- Cebuano: “Catoira”
- Chechen: “Катойра”
- Chinese: “Catoira”
- Chinese: “卡托伊拉”
- Dimli (individual language): “Catoira”
- Dutch: “Catoira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاتويرا”
- Esperanto: “Catoira”
- French: “Catoira”
- Galician: “Catoira”
- Georgian: “კატოირა”
- German: “Catoira”
- Hungarian: “Catoira”
- Interlingua: “Catoira”
- Interlingue: “Catoira”
- Irish: “Catoira”
- Italian: “Catoira”
- Japanese: “カトイラ”
- Korean: “카토이라”
- Ladin: “Catoira”
- Lombard: “Catoira”
- Luxembourgish: “Catoria”
- Malay: “Catoira”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Catoira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Catoira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Catoira”
- Norwegian: “Catoira”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Catoira”
- Persian: “کاتیرا”
- Polish: “Catoira”
- Portuguese: “Catoira”
- Romansh: “Catoira”
- Russian: “Катойра”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاتیرا”
- Spanish: “Catoira”
- Spanish: “Catoria”
- Swedish: “Catoira”
- Tatar: “Катойра”
- Turkish: “Catoira”
- Ukrainian: “Катойра”
- Urdu: “کاتوئیرا”
- Uzbek: “Catoira”
- Venetian: “Catoira”
- Vietnamese: “Catoira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Catoira”
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Highlights include Ulla River and Serra do Xiabre.
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