The Real Club Nautical of Vigo (founded on 1906) is a symbol of the sport of Vigo and of the Galician nautical sport in general, it reunites to 9,000 partners and it organizes of important events between which the Atlantic Week is counted, that in September of 2006 it welcomed the World-wide Championship of the class Platu 25. The RCNV also organizes every year in August one of the more numerous regatas of sailboats of the peninsula: the veteran Regata Ri'as Baixas, who in her edition 2006 counted on the participation of 130 boats of diverse nationalities. It is a coastal regata that, crossing incomparable landscapes of the National Park of the Atlantic Islands, crosses Ri'as Low at the time of the most propitious year for the sport practice. In its 43 editions a deserved good has been worked prestige.

Vigo is the greater urban nucleus of the province of Pontevedra, lines up historical of Val do Fragoso. It is Low a coastal city of Ri'as that limits the North with laughs to which it gives it name, (Laughs of Vigo), to the Northeast with the municipality of Redondela, to the East with the one of MOS, to the South with those of Porriño and Gondomar and to the Southwest with the municipality of Nigrán. To the other side of Ri'a and just before the city are the villas of Cangas and Moaña, to 5 and 3'6 km of distance, respectively.

The viguesa region is characterized by the superiority of an economy diversified tie to the industry and the services. Between the motors of the economy of Vigo it is the automobile industry, led by PSA Peugeot Citroën, that has in the municipality his first factory in importance of Europe, when producing in 2004 a total of 458,550 vehicles, of which more of 88% they were exported outside Spain.

Also, the naval construction and the fishing sector in all their slopes are important, from the extractive industry, shipbuilding, to the commercial one, with its markets of height and of bajura, as well as the conservera, congeladora and transforming industry. Vigo is the first port drug dealer of fish for human consumption of the world (650000 tons in 2004), and the shipyards of Ri'a are leaders of the Spanish deprived naval construction, by invoicing and tonnage. Also it emphasizes the extraction, transformation and commercialization of granite and other ornamentales stones in Porriño.