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The San Lorenzo
beach is located in a privileged place of the
city, being the important beach of the city with
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Gijón is a coastal industrial city and its
municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias
in Spain. Early mediaeval texts mention it as "Gigia".
It was an important regional Roman city, although the
area has been settled since earliest history. The name
was originally applied to a small peninsula presently
referred to as Cimavilla, literally "top of village,"
between two beaches, one of which has a recreational
port today. The main port, one of the largest in the
north of Spain, is called "El Musel". Gijón has a
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growing population of approximately
277,000 (2006). The city is
situated on the central Asturian coast, from sea level to
an altitude of 513 metres at Picu Samartín and 672
metres at Peña de los Cuatro Jueces, bordered on the West
by Carreño, the East by Villaviciosa, and to the South by
Siero and Llanera
The city is situated along the
Asturian coast and is distinguished by the peninsula of
Cimavilla (the original settlement) which separates the
beach of San Lorenzo and adjacent neighborhoods to the
east from the beaches of Poniente and Arbeyal, the
shipyards, and the recreational port and the Port of El
Musel to the west. It is close to the other main Asturian
cities, Oviedo and Avilés.
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