Old town council of Ribas of the Sil of Abaxo is located 40 km. to the north of Ponferrada for the highway c-631, Paramo is the main nucleus of the Municipality. Beside the river Sil and in a plateau to more than 800 meters on the level of the sea, we find a town of beautiful landscapes and in the one that we can enjoy all the incentives that it offers us the nature. Surrounded of mounts and valleys in those that the tranquility and the views are all that a walker can want. Paramo offers more incentives for their visit, like they are their typical constructions of stone and slate with heraldic shields that remember a past of noble nobility and the wooden corridors, typical of the High Bierzo. Of Paramo we can wait, from a calm snack afternoon, with appropriate facilities for summoned it in the highway that leaves from the center of the town toward the near swamp of Matalavilla and the valley of Salentinos, beside the river Salentinos and the source of the White Bridge", until a weekend of mountain for their high picks, not in vain, renamed two summits of the area like they are, the Pick of the I Look (1990 m.) with their lakes glaciers and Torre Catoute (2.114 mt) I itch more high of The Bierzo, they are located in the municipal term. For this trip there is several " cabanos " like they are, Pedrosillo, Usiles, or The Campona. In them we can make night, if the walk lengthens.
In spite of the progressive population descent, motivated fundamentally by the mining crisis, Moor continues being a town with important resources. Inside the municipality they are, a slate quarry, the thermal power station of Anllares, mines of coal of a side and another of the Sil and a quarry of arid, to mention some examples. Moor has interesting infrastructures: to museum etnografico, to sport beautiful, acclimatized pool, soccer field, parks and to building multiusos that it is in construction. But without place to doubts, the best thing is their neighbors that welcome the visitor like one more and that they will be those that better they present us their town in the visit. The town is divided in two important neighborhoods, The Villa and The Barrio, separated by the stream Beards of Cat." Other neighborhoods of the town are, The Station, The Campas, Cediel and The Escobio. The best landscapes offer them to us the nature in spring and in autumn, but if you look for excuse to spend here in summer, the parties are the day 5 of August. Paramo received population's writing and forum of foundation of San Andris' Real Monastery (Vega of Espinareda) in the year 1244, being abbot of the same D. Gonzalo, and it was the first of the towns I lower jurisdiction of the monastery in receiving it. Although writings that already refer to Paramo with this denomination from 1048 exist (Donation of Countess Tarasia to S. Pedro and S. Pablo of Orria, according to D. Augusto Quintana), or in the year 1070, in another donation writing to Astorga, or in 1071 describing an inheritance.
Paramo, as other many towns of the area, this recovering, thanks to the interest of some neighbors and neighboring, their traditions and a group of dances and traditional music that it represents us in all the contests of the area exists.
And don't forget, if you visit the town, to buy honey and brown that apart from other products, these they are very appreciated.