Terras de Compostela covers two complete counties and part of another province of A Coruña: the municipality of Santiago with councils of Ames, Boqueijón Brión, Santiago de Compostela, Teo, Val do Dubra e Vedra. A Barcala composed A Baña and Negreira councils and the Town Hall of Santa Comba belonging to Coruña province region.

The Santiago region covers following municipalities: Ames, Boqueijón Brión, Santiago de Compostela, Teo, Val do Dubra and Vedra. The province covers an area of 690 square kilometers and about 150 thousand inhabitants, not only is joined by its geographical location and by its historical roots, but also by the presence of a population that moves between other municipalities on the basis of work and education. Due to which, the municipalities that make up this region created in 2001 the Mancomunidade de Santiago, a supramunicipal authority who works in the pursuit of common services - transportation, urban planning, fire, collection and processing of waste, social and sporting facilities, etc. for the inhabitants of the region.

According to the last census agricultural published National Institute of statistics, 1999, all municipalities of the comarca of Santiago existed 6.736 agroganaderas farms most of small dimension, which employed 35.907 has 5.569 ha of arable land and 10.135 has permanent pasture land. Currently this number of holdings has fallen considerably, due especially to the low profitability of them and the abandonment of the rural population.

A Barcala region consists of the municipalities A Baña and Negreira, limiting de Coruña by North and West and the Santiago on the South and East, also playing by its southwest corner with de Outes, belonging to the Noia. Negreira is the natural centre of the region of A Barcala. It has an aproximate surface of 213 km2 and an average of approximately 11,500 inhabitants.

According to the last census agricultural published Institute national statistics, 1999, in the province of a Barcala existed 2,122 agroganaderas farms most of small dimension, which employed 15.516 has, with 1. arable land and 5.832 487ha has permanent pasture land. Currently this number of holdings has fallen considerably, due especially to the low profitability of them and the abandonment of the rural population. It is noteworthy that this region lies the main activity and the cooperative Feiraco factory.

The District of the Coruña brings the Town Hall of Santa Comba. Municipal capital is Santa Catalina of Navy, now merged with the population nucleus of Santa Comba, situated almost at the geographic centre of the municipality. Approximately 12,000 inhabitants, which essentially economic activity is agriculture and animal husbandry has as activities, occupying nearly half of the active population (39.9%).

According to the last census agricultural published National Institute of statistics, 1999, in the municipality of Santa Comba existed 2.161 agroganaderas farms most of small dimension, which employed 16.255 has, 1589 ha of arable land and 7.715 has permanent pasture land. Just as in the other regions, this number of farms has declined considerably for the same reasons discussed above.

As regards the population in the 1,106 22 km 2 occupied this territory (13.9 per cent of the province of A Coruña) inhabit seconds data Padrón 2007 a total of 178.547 persons presenting 161,3 population density per square quilómetro, figure far higher than the provincial average is 142,48 inhabitants/km2. We consider only the inhabitants of rural areas disteis municipalities population total territory is 81.363, with a population density of 73,55 HAB. These figures demonstrate the rural and urban duality of this zone with 54% (97.854) of its population living in urban areas of the municipalities of Ames, Santiago de Compostela and Teo, and 46% of rural population that is distributed throughout the country, concentrating 73% of this in the municipality of Santiago.

According to population distribution aspects we can differentiate three groups within the territory:
1. An urban group: Santiago de Compostela, Ames and Teo with highest number of inhabitants and above the Spanish average population densities, and increases in these densities from 1991 until 2007. They have a good relationship between territory and population.
2. An intermediate group rururbano developing composed Vedra, Brión and Boqueijón that share some characteristics of the first and the third group. Vedra and Brión share higher than the Spanish average and of the GDR - 24 densities and have good relationship with positive indices and Brión and Boqueijón territory/population occur growths in their population densities by riba average of Galicia. Rather, they have no population in urban areas and their populations are less than 10,000 inhabitants. Boqueijón rural population density is less than the average of the GDR-24 and has negative indicator on the territory/population ratio.
3.-A group of rural municipalities characterized by its smaller number of inhabitants, decreases in their population densities already low to Galicia and which presents a worse situation in the relationship between population and territory compared to the municipalities of Terras de Compostela set. In this group are A Baña Negreira, Santa Comba, Val do Dubra.

With respect to the level of studies completed by the population of the territory, internal differences are very remarkable and evident above, confirming the weakness in rural areas with respect to the qualification of its population intraterritorial inequality. The main causes of these educational inequalities we can find them in the envelope female ageing rural, since these women had less access to training than men, in the removal of these areas with respect to training and University resources of Santiago and neighbouring cities and the demand for qualified personnel in urban areas that attract qualified land troops.

Regarding natural resources, Terras de Compostela has a rich and privileged natural environment characterised by its rivers and valleys, with a hiperhúmedo oceanic climate with mild temperatures, cool winters and mild summers, making it ideal for agricultural and horticultural activities.  Ulla, Tambre and Xallas rivers turn their territory and are highlighted by all actors involved in the sectoral tables speeches vertebradores axes that are constructions related to the use of this source of wealth: Mills, bridges, excerpts, dams... Me could highlight them no doubt that this earth is that of rivers and streams. Natural areas of greatest interest are to be found in the units landscaping that make up the valleys of rivers Ulla, Sar, the Mary, community, Tambre Valley and the basin of the Coruña.

The situation respect resources in road, aerial communication infrastructure and railway, placed this territory between better communicated areas of Galicia, although this advantage does not affect equally all the municipalities of Terras de Compostela. The most prominent by the speeches of the social and economic actors weakness agrees connection between different nuclei of Councils, i.e. in intraterritorial communication difficulties. The dispersion of population and residential in the peripheral areas of cities, housing entities hamper the structure of the road network and its functionality; also population loss in most rural councils also hinders the viability of the lines and carriage of passengers by intraterritoriales road networks.

Cultural resources, apart from the city of Santiago de Compostela with all its cultural heritage material, immaterial and documentary (recognition of UNESCO Santiago de Compostela as world heritage site and first European Cultural itinerary), the territory has important cultural items cataloged in the inventory of the cultural heritage of the province of A Coruña.

The road to Santiago are identitary elements and vertebradores area and across the entire territory of Terras de Compostela: route until Fisterra and Muxía runs councils of Ames, Negreira to the ida and Brión return by the estuary of walls-Noia. Arousa-Ulla sea trail crosses the municipalities of Brión, Teo and Ames; These last two also crosses the Portuguese Road and finally South Camino or la Plata river Vedra and Boqueijón. Value of almost all cultural resources, implementation initiatives including strengths as Altamira, Torres Lestedo and Randulfe can detect some of these itineraries. Training and employment programmes have acted in the heritage of this territory and is drawn to how a tool of interest for joint performances of start-up value of resources between different administrations and the private sector, as well as provide vocational training, disseminate resources among the population and to improve the labour market integration of disadvantaged groups. The axes of development based on the value of the cultural elements of the territory implementation revolve around three elements integrating and identitary Terras de Compostela:

-Traces of the megalithic culture (castros, mámoas, petroglyphs, dolmens...).
-The road to Santiago, in particular the way Fisterra and Muxía (churches, monasteries, chapels, cruises, sources, hostels, bridges, natural contour, legends).
-Life and culture traditional labradora (House, cuts, haystacks, alpendres, pazos, mills, palomares, car washes, festivals, crafts, celebrations, gastronomy...) featuring in some municipalities sets of constructions and installations related to the way of life, culture and traditional activities of the Galician people and places. The retrieval and disclosure of artisans, agricultural products (souks, baskets, carpentry, stonework...) and agro-food is others of the most attractive and recognized values (crepes, turnip, liqueurs and spirits, eggs, omelettes, bread etc., etc.) being pontos meeting and tourist events in most municipalities of gastronomic festivals or panegyrics products of the territory.

As regards the situation of working, according to data from the National Institute of statistics of the year 2008, although most older than 16 territory residents are in the category of occupied and retirees/pensioners as well that their percentages are higher in the case of occupied in the autonomous community / (46,95%, more than two points) and pensioners (26,65% versus 26.00%) slightly higher. Our territory presents minor percentages unemployed / the people dedicated to home, in which the difference respect the Galician average tasks is 1.98%, and is also slightly lower in the category of students (- 0.48% from Galicia).

Three groups of city councils of the territory is characterized by the predominance of different sectors:

1. The Group of urban municipalities terciarizados (Ames, Santiago and Teo) have the vast majority of people busy in this sector (74.3%), exceeding the average Galician in more than 16 points and 11 and 12% of the population occupies in industry and construction sectors.
2. The Group of municipalities rururbanos (Boqueijón and Brión Vedra) has more than half of persons employed in the tertiary sector spending 17%, 16% construction industry and the primary sector 15%. Present a more diversified than municipalities compostelana capital-related occupational structure and their percentages are lower in services to the Galician community and senior us other sectors.
3. In rural municipalities (A Baña Negreira, Santa Comba, Val do Dubra) dominated by agricultural activities (24%) and construction (18%) overcoming the Galician average and other municipalities of the GDR-24 zone.

The professional situation of the working population is largely employed, six points below the figures of Galicia (71%) and as staff made the company but also with lower Galicia figures.

Entrepreneurial and managerial capacity of Terras de Compostela exceeds that of the autonomous community (27.5%), even more is added to cooperative members who have higher percentages in the category of municipalities rururbanos (2.6% by riba de Galicia). The feminization of the business fabric is remarkable in both two cases (employer/cooperative).

The growth of the number of companies, according to data from the National Institute of statistics of the year 2008, in the territory between 1999 and 2007 is case twice of the Galicia, with the exception of A Baña featuring less than 27.9% of Galicia growth. This increase in the number of enterprises is higher in urban than in rural and urban areas in the latter its growth is similar to the Galician. 7.7% Of the total of Galician companies registered by the Galician Institute of statistics and that appear in the company directory and local units in the year 2007, our territory. These 15.995 companies, 82.8 per cent are located in urban municipalities. 73,78% Of our companies develop their activity in the services sector and 17,11% in the construction sector and also % in industry. Although most firms are servicing of Galician percentage of this sector exceeded in almost that four points to our territory, while the remains of the sectors have greater presence in Terras to Compostela in Galicia.