Carreira (Ribeira)

Coordinates: 42°32′23″N 9°00′40″W / 42.53972°N 9.01111°W / 42.53972; -9.01111
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Parochial seal of San Paio de Carreira
Municipality of Santa Uxía de Ribeira showing its constituent parishes

Carreira (officially, San Paio de Carreira) is one of the nine parishes (along with Aguiño, Artes, Castiñeiras, Corrubedo, Oleiros, Olveira, Palmeira, and Ribeira) of the municipality of Santa Uxía de Ribeira, Galicia, Spain.

The parish includes the settlements of Agro da Cuña, A Aldea Vella, As Bouzas, Os Buxos, Campos de Abaixo, Campos de Arriba, A Capela, Carreiriña, As Cartas, Casalnovo, Castro, Covelo, O Cruce, A Estrada, A Fieiteira, A Filgueira, Frións, A Graña, A Granxa, Laxes, Liboi, A Mámoa, Montevixán, O Outeiro, Parte ó Río, Pé do Corniño, As Pedriñas, A Pedrosa, O Quinteiro, A Revolta, O Rueiro, Sabartán, Sampaio, Sobreira, O Vilar, and Vixán.

In the early 1990s school-age children in Carreira were educated at the unitary parish school until grade three and continued their education in Zas.[1]

Images of the Parish of Carreira

  • Chapel of Nosa Señora da Guía
    Chapel of Nosa Señora da Guía
  • Chapel of San Roque da Granxa
    Chapel of San Roque da Granxa
  • Celtic Hill-fort of Porto de Baixo
    Celtic Hill-fort of Porto de Baixo
  • Hórreo in Sampaio
    Hórreo in Sampaio
  • Sampaio church
    Sampaio church
  • Vixán lagoon
    Vixán lagoon
  • View from Mount A Cidá
    View from Mount A Cidá
  • Old watermill
    Old watermill
  • Anquieiro beach
    Anquieiro beach
  • O Vilar beach
    O Vilar beach
  • Casalnovo
    Casalnovo
  • C.I.E.L.G.A. Natural Park
    C.I.E.L.G.A. Natural Park

References

  1. ^ Roseman, Sharon R. (1995). ""Falamos como Falamos": Linguistic Revitalization and the Maintenance of Local Vernaculars in Galicia". Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 5 (1): 17. JSTOR 43102966.

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