Muxía
Muxía | |
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Muxía town hall | |
Location of Muxía within Galicia | |
| Population (2018) | |
• Total | 4,736 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Muxía (Galician pronunciation: [muˈʃi.ɐ]; Spanish: Mugía [muˈxi.a]) is a coastal town and municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Fisterra.
There was a serious oil spill involving the oil tanker Prestige along the Muxía part of the coast in November, 2002, leaking about 70,000 gallons of oil into the Atlantic Ocean.