Official Name: | Fene |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Spain |
Coordinates: | 43.4667°N -18°W |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Spain. |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
Subdivision Name1: | Galicia |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | A Coruña |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Ferrol |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Juventino Trigo Rey (BNG, Galician Nationalist Bloc) |
Area Total Km2: | 26.29 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Fene (pronounced as /gl/) is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is located to the northeast of Galicia on the Ria of Ferrol.
The Navantia Shipyards and services in the parts which are nearer Ferrol, the rest of the borough devotes itself to farming, agriculture and fishing.
In the late 1960s the gantry crane of the shipyards of Astilleros y Talleres del Noroeste (ASTANO) in Ferrolterra was the largest in Europe.