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10 unusual facts about Pontevedra


2007 Canoe Sprint European Championships

The 2007 Canoe Sprint European Championships were held in Pontevedra, Spain.

Ballona Creek

The Machado and Talamantes families, co-grantees of the rancho, heralded from Baiona in northern Spain.

Cerviño

Nevertheless, the surname is still more common in Pontevedra, and more particularly in the area of Cotobade.

Cerviño is a surname originally from the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.

Escuela Naval Militar de Oficiales

The Escuela Naval Militar de Oficiales (ENM) at Marín, Pontevedra, in north-western Spain, is the Spanish institution in charge of training the Spanish Navy's officer class, as well as other naval personnel.

Francisco José Millán Mon

Francisco José Millán Mon (born on 8 March 1955 in Pontevedra)

Hyacinthoides paivae

Hyacinthoides paivae is endemic to the north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, including western parts of Galicia (A Coruña, Ourense and Pontevedra provinces) and north-western parts of Portugal (Beira Litoral, Douro Litoral, Minho and Trás-os-Montes provinces).

Rosaura Lopez

Rosaura Lopez Lorenzo (16 March 1932, Pontevedra, Spain – 19 September 2005, Pontevedra, Spain) was a maid of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the Dakota apartment between 1976 and 1980.

SEAT Arosa

Named after Villagarcía de Arosa, a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, Spain, it was only available as a three-door, four-seater hatchback.

Tuy, Batangas

The name TUY was given by Don Salvador Ellio in memory of his birthplace, Tui, Galicia, Spain.


Audiencias Provinciales of Spain

Examples include the Audiencia Provincial of Alicante, located in Elche rather than Alicante; the fifth section of the Audiencia Provincial of Murcia in Cartagena; the Audiencia Provincial of Pontevedra, with its fifth and sixth sections in Vigo; and the Audiencia Provincial of Cádiz with a section in the exclave of Ceuta.

Barbanza e Iria

The area covered by this geographical indication comprises the municipalities of Catoira, Valga, Pontecesures, Padrón, Dodro, Rianxo, Boiro, A Pobra do Caramiñal, Ribeira and some parts of Porto do Son and Lousame, located in the provinces of A Coruña and Pontevedra, in Galicia, Spain.

Caldelas

Ponte Caldelas, a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.

Dolores Pedrares

María Dolores Pedrares Alonso (born January 17, 1973 in Tuy, Pontevedra) is a retired female hammer thrower from Spain.

Luciano Varela

Luciano Varela Castro was a judge of the Audiencia Provincial of Pontevedra for 23 years, and has been a judge Spanish Judge of the Supreme Court of Spain since 2007.

Manuel Portela Valladares

Manuel Portela y Valladares (Pontevedra, 31 January 1868 – Bandol, 29 April 1952) was a Spanish political figure during the Second Spanish Republic.

Mirabelle plum

In Spain it grows in Galicia, in O Rosal, a valley in the south of the province of Pontevedra in which was introduced in the mid-twentieth century by Xosé Sánchez García and where it has acclimated to perfection.

Oia

Oia, Spain, a municipality in Galicia, in the province of Pontevedra

Pablo Cimadevila Alvarez

Pablo Cimadevila Alvarez (born December 12, 1978 in Pontevedra) is an S6 swimmer from Spain.

Pablo Saavedra Reinado

Pablo Saavedra Reinado (born January 29, 1975 in Pontevedra) is an S9 swimmer from Spain.

Rural Bank of Marayo

and Banate Iloilo, Rural Bank of Marayo has helped in the development of the town of Banate in Iloilo and its home town in Pontevedra Negros Occidental.

Susanna Garabatos

Susana Garabatos Rodríguez (born March 8, 1979 in Vigo, Pontevedra) is a former freestyle swimmer from Spain, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.