Somió Somio is district (parroquia) number 8
Country Country A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
Autonomous Community	Principality of Asturias
Comarca Comarcas of Asturias Asturias, an autonomous community in Spain, is divided into eight comarcas. These comarcas are not an administrative division of the autonomous community. The comarcas in Spain are a grouping of municipalities that are encouraged to work together to achieve objectives...	Comarca of Gijón / Xixón Gijón (Asturian comarca) Gijón is one of eight comarcas , administrative divisions of Asturias, which is a province and an autonomous community in Spain ....
Municipality Municipality A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...	Gijón / Xixón

Somió is a civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 (parroquia rural in Spanish

Spanish language

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) of the municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 of Gijón / Xixón, in Asturias, Spain

Spain

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. Civil parishes are the legal subdivisions of the municipalities under the current statute of autonomy of Asturias .

Its population was 6.800 in 2001.

Somió is a coastal and residential

Residential area

A residential area is a land use in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single family housing, multi-family residential, or mobile homes. Zoning for residential use may permit...

 district which borders the municipality of Villaviciosa

Villaviciosa, Asturias

Villaviciosa is a town and in the autonomous community of Asturias, Spain. It is situated on the central eastern coastline, and borders the Asturian municipalities of Gijón and Siero to the west, Sariego, Nava, Cabranes and Piloña to the south and to Colunga to the east. The total area is 271 km²...

 in the east.

Neighborhoods and places

Somió nowadays includes 10 neighborhoods (see map), and some other remarkable places. That's the reason for the flag of Somió to have a 10-pointed star.

Neighborhoods Candenal Las Caserías La Corolla La Guía-Fontanía Fojanes Fuejo La Pipa El Pisón La Redonda San Lorenzo

Places L'Ablanu La Carbayera Les Castañaliques El Cruceru El Curiosu La Güelga La Iría El Molín de Viento El Monte Moriyón

El Piqueru La Providencia El Puentín El Rinconín Villamanín

Beach

Beach

A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones...

es

Within the district, there are the following beaches:

• La Ñora
• Estaño
• Serín
• Peñarrubia (nude beach
  Nude beach
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• El Rinconín

External links

• "San Julián" de Somió - Neighbourhood association official website