The MOST COMPLEX town in Spain - Os Peares, Galicia, España
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Ariberna
N 42° 27.254 W 007° 43.921
29T E 604261 N 4700989
El pueblo más complejo de España por su administración.
Waymark Code: WM19WMM
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 04/27/2024
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member silverquill
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ES"Justo donde el Miño recibe las aguas del Sil viven unos quinientos vecinos en un inimaginable caos organizativo. Es el pueblo de Os Peares, una sola parroquia, la de Nosa Señora do Pilar, en un pueblo que está repartido entre dos provincias (Lugo y Ourense), cuatro ayuntamientos (Carballedo y Pantón, en Lugo; y Nogueira de Ramuín y A Peroxa, en Ourense), tres partidos judiciales, dos diócesis, tres comarcas... y tres ríos: Miño, Sil y Búbal, circunstancia hidrográfica que aprovechan desde los años cuarenta dos centrales eléctricas.

El absurdo administrativo de Os Peares convierte a este lugar, que dista dieciocho kilómetros de la ciudad de Ourense, en el pueblo más complejo de España es una verdadera pesadilla para sus vecinos, que tienen que diseminar su papeleo por media Galicia. Muchos de ellos están acostumbrados a salir en la televisión para contar, ante los incrédulos periodistas, el kafkaiano galimatías en el que viven.

En mayo de 1999, catorce años después de que sus vecinos hubieran principiado una campaña para convertirse en municipio propio, se aprobó una fórmula para intentar organizar medianamente este caos: la Xunta, las diputaciones de Lugo y Ourense y los cuatro ayuntamientos acordaron constituir el Consorcio Local De Os Peares."

EN: "Os Peares belongs to two provinces, four town councils, three judicial districts, three regions and two dioceses.
The most complex town in Spain
Right where the Miño receives the waters of the Sil, some five hundred residents live in an unimaginable organizational chaos. It is the town of Os Peares, a single parish, that of Nosa Señora do Pilar, in a town that is divided between two provinces (Lugo and Ourense), four town councils (Carballedo and Pantón, in Lugo; and Nogueira de Ramuín and A Peroxa , in Ourense), three judicial districts, two dioceses, three regions... and three rivers: Miño, Sil and Búbal, a hydrographic circumstance that two power plants have taken advantage of since the 1940s.

The administrative absurdity of Os Peares turns this place, which is eighteen kilometers from the city of Ourense, into the most complex town in Spain and is a true nightmare for its neighbors, who have to spread their paperwork throughout half of Galicia. Many of them are used to appearing on television to tell, before incredulous journalists, the Kafkaesque gibberish in which they live.

In May 1999, fourteen years after its neighbors had started a campaign to become their own municipality, a formula was approved to try to moderately organize this chaos: the Xunta, the Lugo and Ourense councils and the four town councils agreed to form the Consortium. Os Peares Local."

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