Oriente is one of 8 comarcas administrative divisions of Asturias, which is a province and an autonomous community in Spain .
The comarca of Oriente is divided into fourteen administrative regions (in Asturian conceyos). From east to west they are
- Ribadedeva
- Peñamellera Baxa
- Peñamellera Alta
- Cabrales
- Llanes
- Onís
- Cangues d'Onís
- Ribesella
- Amieva
- Parres
- Caravia
- Colunga
- Piloña
- Ponga
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“Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)