What is "carballo"

Carballo is a Municipality in the north western region of Spain in the Province of A Coruña, the second-largest city in the Autonomous community of Galicia, Spain and seventeenth overall in the country. It belongs to the Comarca of Bergantiños.

The seafood company Calvo is headquartered here.

Carballo is one of 54 parishes in Cangas del Narcea, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

Carballo may refer to:

In people:

• Carballo (name), the family name Carballo
• Diego de Souza Carballo, a Uruguayan footballer
• José Rodríguez Carballo, a Roman Catholic priest
• Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, was president of El Salvador
• Manuel Carballo (epidemiologist), epidemiologist
• Manuel Carballo (gymnast) (born 1982), Spanish artistic gymnast
• Marcelo Carballo, a Bolivian football defender
• María Elena Carballo, the Minister of Youth and Culture in Costa Rica
• Miguel Carballo, an Argentine professional golfer
• Pablo Marcos Carballo, an Argentine Air Force Air Commodore
• Ramiro Carballo, a Salvadoran professional soccer player
• Carlos Velasco Carballo, (born 16 March 1971) is a Spanish professional football referee
• Jesus Carballo, (born 26 November 1976) Spanish former gymnast who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and again in 2004
• Néstor Carballo,is a Uruguayan football defender for Uruguay in the 1954 FIFA World Cup
• Ramiro Carballo,(March 1978) Salvadoran professional football player for the Salvadoran Premier League.
• Marcelo Carballo,(December, 1974) Bolivian football defender playing for first division club Wilstermann
• Héctor Federico Carballo,(March, 1980) Argentine footballer currently playing for CA Mitre in Argentina.
• Ezequiel Carballo,(November, 1989) is an Argentine footballer currently playing as a striker.
• Hugo Carballo,(April, 1944) Chilean footballer currently played for clubs of Argentina and Chile.

In places:

• Carballo, a municipality of Spain in the Province of A Coruña
• Carballo (Narcea), a civil parish in Asturias, Spain

In music:

• Carballo, the name of the closing track of the Everything Is Green album by New York band, The Essex Green

Carballo is originally a (Spanish, Galician, Catalan and Basque), surname. The surname derived from both a (Galician) and (Portuguese) word meaning Oak, referring to the families settlement's surroundings of forest on mountainous terrain in La Coruña, Galicia, the north western part of Spain. Throughout the years the surname has become more frequent among other countries and the name has had variances in its spelling. It widely became renowned in the early 1600s in the Spanish colonization of the Americas or New Spain and greatly expanded during the 1800s. Spreading from South America, Central America, Mexico and North America, also including the Philippine islands, Cuba and Puerto Rico, territories of Spanish Colonialism or colonial expansion under the Crown of Castile during Spanish holdings in the Age of Discovery. The Carballo family with its great geographical diversity and participation in the colonization of the modern day countries, has contributed to some of the new world’s greatest leaders, military heroes, clergy, and history makers and because of their geographical spread, the languages spoken do vary just as their surname spellings.