TOWN COUNCIL OF FOLGOSO DE CAUREL

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Town Council 

 

 

 


    The Town Council of Folgoso de Caurel its placed on the southeast of Lugo´s province, with a extension of 193 km2 (but only mean a 1% of the Galician´s surface,here be concentrated a 40% of superior plants of the Comunity), constituted by mountain ranges in direction NE-SO, between them running many rivers and creeks, the most important is the Rio Lor, that formed a vertigo picture with narrow valleys and vertical hillsides culminated for tops like Pía Páxaro (1.616 m.), Formigueiros (1.654 m.), Escrita (1.455m).

The confluence gives the climatic tendencies mediterranean and eurosiberian, beginnin the ocean  climate of the town, in mountain climate, creating strong diferencies of weather, of weather to summer.

The alternate of ground and the damp climate of the mountain make a rich variety of floral distributed in altitude scale. Them, in the tops we find piornales, under 1.400 m. beech, yew, birch, oak, holly; and down chestnuts, ilex,strawberry trees, moors. With this natural paradise combinates  fauna formada por wolfs, foxs, roe deer, wild boar, genets, badger, hares, rabbits, squirrel, marten, stoat, red partidge, eagle owl,...

 

The population raise to 1.310 habitants, distributed in nine parrishs and forty-five towns:

 

 

* Vilamor (San Vicente): O Carballal, Froxán, Mazo Santigoso, Castro Portela, Vilar, A Campa, Vidallón & Vilamor.

* Folgoso (Santa María): Sobredo, Ferreirós de Abaixo, Ferreirós de Arriba, Santa Eufemia, Eiriz, Valdomir, A Pendella, O Touzón & Folgoso.

* Seceda (San Silvestre):   Cortes, Lousadela & Seceda.

* Seoane (San Juán):   Mercurín, Ferrería Vella, Ferrería de Seoane, Moreda, Parada, Piñeira & Seoane.

* Esperante (San Pedro): Castro de Romeor, Romeor, Millares, Mostad, Esperante & Campelo.

* Horreos (San Pedro):  Hórreos & Ferramulín.

* Visuña:  Visuña.

* Meiraos (Santa María):  Pedrafita, Paderne, Miraz, O Mazo, Villasibil & Meiraos.

* Noceda (San Pedro):   Noceda, Vilela & Teixeira.

 

    The Council´s capital is Folgoso, sitting on the road Quiroga-Becerreá with 23 km. of Quiroga (N-120) and with 38 of Piedrafita del Cebrero (A-6). In Folgoso been the council´s office:

 

Rúa Deputación s/n

27325 Folgoso de Caurel (LUGO)

 

Phone/fax :982433001/982433052 (telephone exchange to speak with the council´s services –oficces, mayor, services, socials, secretary, court-).

 

 

     In old times the municipal´s offices was sitting in Seoane (place situated more in the north on the road Quiroga-Becerreá, 13 km of Folgoso ). 

ADMINISTRATION PERSONAL

 

v     Secretary-receiver: Mª Esperanza Garmendia Núñez.

v     Administrative Auxiliar: Mª Carmen Parada Jato.

v     Local Develop Tecnic: Jesús Aira Rodríguez.

v     Social Worker: María Gloria Sanmartín Romero.

v     Court Secretary: Vicente Sánchez Sánchez.                                                                                                                                                                                                             

COUNCIL CORPORATIÓN

 

v                   PSOE:                                                                                                                                                       

1.      José López Fontal: Mayor-President.

2.      Francisco Javier Castro Fernández:  Deputy mayor personal´s councillor and council services.

3.      José Rodríguez Arza.

4.      Aurora Fuentes Vila.

5.      José Luis Martínez Gancedo.

 

v                   PP:                                                                                                                                         

1.      David Ferreiro Chousa.

2.      Manuel López Fuentes.

3.      Roberto Gundriz Sobredo.

 

v                   BNG:                                                                                                                                                                           

1.     Orlando Gregorio Álvarez Álvarez.