Illas is a municipality in Asturias

Asturias

The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...

, Spain

Spain

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, located in the western central part of the province and bordered by the municipalities of Castrillón

Castrillón

Castrillón is a concejo in Asturias, located on the central coast. It has an area of 56.70 km² and a population of 22,361 inhabitants . The most important population centres are the capital Piedras Blancas, Salinas, and Raíces....

, Candamo

Candamo

Candamo is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the east by Las Regueras, on the south by Grado, on the north by Illas, Castrillón and Soto del Barco, and on the west by Pravia and Salas.-History:Around Candamo and specially on the...

, Llanera

Llanera

Llanera is the feminine form of the Spanish word llanero. It may refer to:* Llanera, Nueva Ecija, Philippines* Llanera, Asturias, Spain* Llanera music, music of the Llanero culture in Colombia and Venezuela...

, and Corvera de Asturias

Corvera de Asturias

Corvera de Asturias is a municipality in the principality of Asturias in northern Spain. It shares a boundary to the north with Avilés and Gozón; to the east with Carreño and Gijón; to the south with Llanera and Illas and to the west with Castrillón...

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Parishes

There are three parishes (administrative divisions):

• Illas
  Illas (parish)
  Illas is one of three parishes in Illas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, by northern Spain's Picos de Europa mountains.-Villages:...
  
  
• La Peral
  La Peral
  La Peral is one of three parishes in Illas, a municipality of Asturias, by northern Iberic Picos de Europa mountains.- Demography :-Villages:* L'Argañosa* La Peral* Reconcu* Rozaflor...
  
  
• Villa

Geography

The area of Illas is very hilly. One of the most remarkable is the Pico Gorfolí with a height of 619 miles above sea level. The county of Avilés

Avilés

Avilés is a city in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main towns in the Principality of Asturias.The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, in a land that belonged to the sea, surrounded by small promontories, all of them having an altitude of less than...

, Cabo Peñas, and the Bay of Biscay

Bay of Biscay

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 can be viewed from Pico Gorfolí. If the sky is cloudless, one can observe the Picos de Europa

Picos de Europa

The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains 20 km inland from the northern coast of Spain, located in the Autonomous Communities of Asturias, Cantabria and Castile and León, forming part of the Cantabrian Mountains...

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Economy

The county has an economy based on agricultural and cattle

Cattle

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 trading. This is reflected in two kinds of cheese

Cheese

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s, the cheese of La Peral and Taborneda known as "Gorfolí".

With the arrival of the industry

Industry

Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...

at Avilés, a lot of workers went there from the county of Illas to work on the new productive processes.