Parroquias 8 Area 86 km² Local time Monday 7:11 AM Team CD Boiro | Time zone CET (UTC+1) Population 19,060 (2014) Province Province of A Coruña | |
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Website Concello de Boiro website Weather 14°C, Wind W at 8 km/h, 98% Humidity | ||
Boiro is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is located in the comarca of Barbanza. Boiro has an area of 86.58 km2.
Map of Boiro, A Coru%C3%B1a, Spain
It is perhaps best known as the small town where famous quadriplegic (and Galician) Ramón Sampedro received euthanasia. The town was thus filmed in for the 2004 film Mar Adentro, which won an Oscar.
Boiro is also well known for local tourists that come from inner Spain to enjoy the milder climate and landscape, most notably the Barbanza mountain chain, Praia de Barraña (which lies close to the town center), and Carragueiros and Mañóns beaches (one in O Castro parish and the other in Abanqueiro parish).
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