Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Congosto | |
Pushpin Map: | Spain#Spain Castile and León |
Coordinates: | 42.6178°N -6.52°W |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | El Bierzo |
Subdivision Name4: | Congosto |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | José Antonio Velasco Fernández |
Leader Party: | PP |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 36.81 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [3] |
Elevation M: | 689 |
Population As Of: | 2023 |
Population Total: | 1436 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Demonym: | congostino, congostina |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | 24398 |
Area Code Type: | Telephone prefix |
Area Code: | 987 |
Congosto (pronounced as /es/) is a village and municipality located in the region of El Bierzo (province of León, Castile and León, Spain) . It is located near to Ponferrada, the capital of the region. The village of Congosto within the municipality has about 254 inhabitants.[4]
Its economy was traditionally based on agriculture, wine and coal mining. Nowadays, most of the inhabitants work on the surrounding area on activities such as wind turbine manufacturing or coal mining.
Congosto also a large reservoir in its vicinity, the Barcena reservoir, to which many tourists visit during the summer.