O Porriño facts for kids

Quick facts for kids O Porriño Porriño
Municipality
O Porriño train station (February 2011)
Coat of arms
Location of the municipality of O Porriño within Galicia
O Porriño Location in Spain
Country	Spain
Autonomous Community	Galicia
Province	Pontevedra
Comarca	Vigo
Parrishes	Atios, Budiño, Cans, Chenlo, Mosende, Pontellas, Porriño, Torneiros
Government
• Type	Mayor–council
• Body	Concello do Porriño
Area
• Total	62 km2 (24 sq mi)
• Land	62 km2 (24 sq mi)
• Water	0 km2 (0 sq mi)
Elevation	109 m (358 ft)
Population
• Total	KIDDLE_IB
Demonym(s)	porriñés (m), porriñesa (f)
Time zone	CET (GMT +1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (GMT +2)
Post code	36400
Area code(s)	+34 986

O Porriño (historically known in English as Porrinno) is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

An industrial town, in the Vigo metropolitan area, it is an important economic dependency. One of its main industries is granite production; the variety of granite produced in O Porriño is known as Rosa Porriño (Porriño Pink), and is exported from the Port of Vigo mainly to Italy, Japan and China.

From O Porriño came the architect Antonio Palacios, known for the use of granite in his work, such as the Telecommunications Palace in Madrid, the García Barbón Theater in Vigo, or Porrino Town Hall amongst others.

It is the home town of the Sporting Lisboa woman basketball team player Andrea Pérez Alonso.

On 9 September 2016, a Portuguese train travelling from Vigo to Porto derailed near O Porriño railway station, killing the driver and at least three other people on board.

Parroquias

The municipality is formed of eight parroquias (parishes)

• Atios (Santa Baia)
• Budiño, O Porriño (San Salvador)
• Cans (Santo Estevo)
• Chenlo (San Xoán)
• Mosende (San Diego)
• Pontellas (Santiago)
• O Porriño (Santa María)
• Torneiros (San Salvador)

Notable people

• Antonio Palacios, architect (1872–1945)

See also

In Spanish: Porriño para niños

• List of municipalities in Spain
• Vigo