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CAPEL CURIG (kap'el kii'rig or ku'rech), a small tourist centre in Carnarvonshire, North Wales. Population of parish 359. It lies 6m. W. of Bettws-y-Coed, near the con fluence of the Gwryd and the Llugwy, in some of the wildest mountain scenery of North Wales, and forms a convenient centre for ascending Snowdon, the Glydyrs and the Carnedds. Moel Siabod rises immediately to the south.