Cangas de Onís Guide

Cangas de Onís
Cangas de Onís
Cangues d'Onís
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Principality of Asturias
Demonym
 • Spanish
Cangués
Capital Cangas de Onís
Coordinates 43°21′N, 5°8′W
Judicial district Cangas de Onís
Parishes 11
Population (2005)
 • Total
 • Density
 • % of Asturias		 Rank: 25
6,574 inhabitants
31.30 people/km²
0.61 %
Area
 • Total
 • % of Asturias		 Rank: 16
210 km²
1.98 %
Highest point Peña Santa 2,478 m
Postcode 33547 to 33559
Mayor Alfredo García Álvarez (PSOE)
Town council
Political parties
Website http://www.cangasdeonis.com
The hump-backed Roman Bridge is actually medieval in date.
The hump-backed Roman Bridge is actually medieval in date.

Cangas de Onís (Asturian: Cangues d'Onís) is a municipality in the eastern part of the province and autonomous community of Asturias in the northwest of Spain. The capital of the municipality is also Cangas de Onís.

More than seventy square kilometres of the concejo form part of the Parque nacional de los Picos de Europa. Within the park is the village of Covadonga, where the battle of Covadonga (about 722), the first major victory by a Christian military force in Iberia, marks the starting-point of the Reconquista.

Until 774, Cangas de Onís was the capital of the Kingdom of Asturias. It lies on the Sella River, which is there spanned by a "Roman bridge," which is actually from the medieval period.

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