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The 100.000 Pilgrim arrives in Santiago de Compostela
The 100,000th Pilgrim arrives at Santiago de Compostela from Colombia. At the end of last week, Jose Enrique Forero arrived in the city. The 100,000th Compostela was awarded to the Colombian pilgrim, who made the Way from Saint Jean Pied de Port in 33 days, covering a total of 799 km. It was the second time that he made the Way, the previous one he was made from León to Muxía and he doesn't dismiss doing it again on another occasion, maybe, with his family. The director of Tourism of Galicia, Nava Castro, and the canon of Santiago´s Cathedral, Daniel Lorenzo, participated in the ceremony. Jorge Enrique added that in Colombia there are a high number of people attracted by the Camino, information corroborated by Nava Castro, "Colombia is one of the countries in Latin America that most pilgrims bring after Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.
According to data from the pilgrim's office this year, this position has been advanced one week compared to the previous year. There were 300,000 pilgrims who arrived in Compostela during 2017. Their motivations, as expressed by the pilgrims were primarily religious, religious-cultural in second place and finally stated that the reasons for this pilgrimage were exclusively cultural. Only in May of this year, 11,800 more pilgrims have been received in the city compared to the same month of the previous year. The Ways that most pilgrims have followed are the French Way with 23,847 (58.64%); the Portuguese Way with 8,916 (21.93%); The North Way with 1,729 (4.25%); The Primitive Way with 1.715 (4.22%); The Coast of the Portuguese Way with 1.579 (3.88%); The English Way with 1,451 (3.57%); the Vía de la Plata Way with 1,237 (3.04%); the Muxia-Finisterre Way with 98 (0.24%); The Winter Way with 54 (0.13%); Other Ways with 39 (0.10%); etc.