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Ferrol (Galician: ⓘ, Spanish: ⓘ) is a city in the province of A Coruña [2] in Galicia, Spain, located in the Rías Altas, in the vicinity of Strabo's Cape Nerium (modern-day Cape Prior). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] [ 5 ] According to the 2021 census, the city had a population of 64,785, making it the seventh-largest settlement in Galicia.
Ferrol is a coastal comarca in the northwest of the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It is also known as Ferrolterra . The area is 613.4 km 2 , and the overall population of this comarca was 161,154 at the 2011 Census; [ 2 ] the latest official estimate (at the start of 2018) was 153,776.
The ria of Ferrol is an important naval base of Spain. All along the Galician coast are various archipelagos near the mouths of the rías. These archipelagos provide protected deepwater harbors and also provide habitat for seagoing birds. A 2007 inventory estimates that the Galician coast has 316 archipelagos, islets, and freestanding rocks. [45]
The Ria of Ferrol (or Bay of Ferrol; Spanish and Galician: ría de Ferrol) is a ria in Galicia, Spain, the saline estuary of the Xuvia River.Located in the province of A Coruña, in the northwestern end of the Iberian Peninsula, it forms along the rías of A Coruña, Ares and Betanzos the gulf known as Portus Magnus Artabrorum in Roman times. [1]
Area • Total. 106 ... There is a fishing and commercial port, the only major port between Ferrol and ... (1926-2008), prime minister of Spain 1981–82 ...
Ferrol Spanish Capital of the Maritime Department of the North (1788 AD). Spanish Naval Academy (ENM) In modern times, Institution where the Spanish Armada officers and other personnel receive their education. "El Galatea" (also known as Glenlee) From 1922 till 1969 it was the Training Tall Ship for the Spanish Navy in Ferrol (Northwestern Spain).
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The Iberian Peninsula (IPA: / aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə n / eye-BEER-ee-ən), [a] also known as Iberia, [b] is a peninsula in south-western Europe.Mostly separated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenees, it includes the territories of Peninsular Spain [c] and Continental Portugal, comprising most of the region, as well as the tiny adjuncts of Andorra, Gibraltar, and, pursuant to the ...