O Porriño
Porriño | |
|---|---|
 O Porriño train station (February 2011) | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of the municipality of O Porriño within Galicia | |
  O Porriño | |
| Coordinates: 42°10′00″N 8°37′00″W / 42.16666°N 8.61666°W | |
| Country | Spain |
| Autonomous Community | Galicia |
| Province | Pontevedra |
| Comarca | Vigo |
| Parrishes | Atios, Budiño, Cans, Chenlo, Mosende, Pontellas, Porriño, Torneiros |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–council |
| • Body | Concello do Porriño |
| • Mayor | Eva De La Torre (PSOE) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 62 km2 (24 sq mi) |
| • Land | 62 km2 (24 sq mi) |
| • Water | 0 km2 (0 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 109 m (358 ft) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
| • Total | 19,740 |
| • Density | 320/km2 (820/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | porriñés (m), porriñesa (f) |
| Time zone | CET (GMT +1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (GMT +2) |
| Post code | 36400 |
| Area code | +34 986 |
| Website | oporrino |
O Porriño (historically known in English as Porrinno) is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.
An industrial town, in the Vigo metropolitan area, it is an important economic dependency. One of its main industries is granite production; the variety of granite produced in O Porriño is known as Rosa Porriño (Porriño Pink), and is exported from the Port of Vigo mainly to Italy, Japan and China.
From O Porriño came the architect Antonio Palacios, known for the use of granite in his work, such as the Telecommunications Palace in Madrid, the García Barbón Theater in Vigo, or Porrino Town Hall amongst others.
It is the home town of the Sporting Lisboa woman basketball team player Andrea Pérez Alonso.
On 9 September 2016, a Portuguese train travelling from Vigo to Porto derailed near O Porriño railway station, killing the driver and at least three other people on board.[2]
Parroquias
The municipality is formed of eight parroquias (parishes)
- Atios (Santa Baia)
- Budiño, O Porriño (San Salvador)
- Cans (Santo Estevo)
- Chenlo (San Xoán)
- Mosende (San Diego)
- Pontellas (Santiago)
- O Porriño (Santa María)
- Torneiros (San Salvador)
Notable people
- Antonio Palacios, architect (1872–1945)
See also
References
- ↑ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ↑ "Deadly train crash in north-west Spain". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
External links
Media related to O Porriño at Wikimedia Commons- Porriño - Tourism Rias Baixas
- Councillorship for Culture of O Porriño
- Culture web of O Porriño
