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Bajo Cinca
Bajo Cinca () or Baix Cinca (; an, Cinca Baxa, ) is a comarca in eastern Aragon, Spain. It is named after river Cinca. This comarca is located in the southeastern corner of the Huesca province. The administrative capital is Fraga, with 13,592 inhabitants the largest town of the comarca. Bajo Cinca/Baix Cinca borders La Litera/La Llitera, Cinca Medio, Monegros and Bajo Aragón-Caspe/Baix Aragó-Casp in Aragon and Segrià and Ribera d'Ebre in Catalonia. This comarca belongs to the Catalan-speaking strip in eastern Aragon known as La Franja and some municipal terms of Bajo Cinca/Baix Cinca are part of the historical region of Lower Aragon. Municipal terms The region includes the municipalities of Ballobar (Vallobar), Belver de Cinca (Bellver de Cinca), Candasnos, Chalamera (Xalamera), Fraga, Mequinenza (Mequinensa), Ontiñena (Ontinyena), Osso de Cinca (Ossó de Cinca), Torrente de Cinca (Torrent de Cinca), Velilla de Cinca (Vilella de Cinca) and Zaidín (Saidí). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comarcas Of Aragon
Here is a list of the administrative ''comarcas'' (counties) in the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain. They were officially delimited in 1999, with substantial changes over a previously proposed division. See also *Comarcal council *Comarcas of Spain See also lists of municipalities in Aragon by province: * List of municipalities in Huesca *List of municipalities in Teruel *List of municipalities in Zaragoza This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Zaragoza (Saragossa in English) in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. There are 293 municipalities in the province. See also List of Aragonese comarcas. See also * Geography of ... References External links Comarcas of Aragonand legal links about their creation. Comarcal division, basic data (Aragonese Statistical Institute) {{Comarcas of Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinca Medio
The Cinca Medio is a Comarcas of Aragon, comarca in eastern Aragon, Spain. It is named after river Cinca, Aragon, Cinca. This comarca is bordered on the northwest by the Somontano de Barbastro comarca, to the east by La Litera and the south by the Bajo Cinca and Monegros. It is one of the regions with the greatest population density (40 inhabitants per km) in Aragon. The main sources of income are industry and agriculture. Municipalities *Albalate de Cinca *Alcolea de Cinca *Alfántega *Almunia de San Juan *Binaced *Fonz *Monzón *Pueyo de Santa Cruz *San Miguel del Cinca See also *Bajo Cinca References External links * {{coord, 41, 54, N, 0, 11, E, type:adm3rd_source:itwiki, display=title Geography of the Province of Huesca Comarcas of Aragon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mequinenza
Mequinenza (Aragonese and ) or Mequinensa () is a town and municipality of the province of Zaragoza, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It is located beside the river Segre, close to its confluence with the river Ebro between the Mequinenza Dam and Riba-roja reservoir. Its reservoir, known also as Mar de Aragón, built between 1957 and 1964, has a capacity of 1,530,000,000 m³ and is one of the largest in the country. It has a regatta field for rowing and canoeing considered one of the best in Europe for its excellent accessibility and its stable level of water. San Blas and Santa Águeda Festivities take place in February and are considered a Festival of Tourist Interest in Aragon. Name The name comes from Miknasa, a Berber tribe that built a defensive settlement at Mequinenza Castle in the 8th century. It was Latinized as ''Miquinencia'' and appears differently in the documentation until the 19th century, alternating the forms ''Mquinensa'', ''Miquinença'', ''Meq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalamera
Chalamera () is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (other) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (other) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...), the municipality has a population of 153 inhabitants. Notable people * Ramón J. Sender (1901–1982), novelist, essayist and journalist References Municipalities in the Province of Huesca {{huesca-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candasnos
Candasnos () is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (other) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (other) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...), the municipality has a population of 470 inhabitants. References Municipalities in the Province of Huesca {{huesca-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belver De Cinca
Belver de Cinca () is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1,375 inhabitants. Notable people * Felipe Alaiz (1887–1959), writer and translator * Francisco Antonio Cosme Bueno (1711-1798), physician and scientist who spent most of his life in the Viceroyalty of Peru References See also *Bajo Cinca/Baix Cinca Bajo Cinca () or Baix Cinca (; an, Cinca Baxa, ) is a comarca in eastern Aragon, Spain. It is named after river Cinca. This comarca is located in the southeastern corner of the Huesca province. The administrative capital is Fraga, with 13,592 ... Municipalities in the Province of Huesca {{huesca-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballobar, Huesca
Ballobar () is a municipality in the province of Huesca, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i .... As of 2010, it has a population of 981 inhabitants. References auto Municipalities in the Province of Huesca {{huesca-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Aragon
Lower Aragon ( es, Bajo Aragón, an, Baixo Aragón, ca, Baix Aragó), also known as ''Tierra Baja'', is a natural and historical region in Aragon, Spain. The name "Lower Aragon" refers to the areas of the lowest altitude within the Ebro river basin, but the historical region encompasses only the river basins of several right tributaries of the Ebro River, namely the Matarranya, Guadalope, Regallo, Martín and Aguas, located between the Ebro and the Iberian mountain range. The demonym for Lower Aragonese people is ''bajoaragonés'' or ''tierrabajino''. The eastern fringes of the Lower Aragon natural region include some areas belonging as well to the Catalan-speaking strip in eastern Aragon known as La Franja and overlapping the historical Ilercavonia comarca. All the villages traditionally taking part in the characteristic and loud Drum and Bass drum Route during Holy Week processions are included in Lower Aragon historical region. History In 1707, following King Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Region
Historical regions (or historical areas) are geographical regions which at some point in time had a cultural, ethnic An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ..., linguistics, linguistic or politics, political basis, regardless of latterday borders. They are used as delimitations for studying and analysing social development of List of time periods, period-specific cultures without any reference to contemporary political, economic or social organisations. The fundamental principle underlying this view is that older political and mental structures exist which exercise greater influence on the spatial-social identity of individuals than is understood by the contemporary world, bound to and often blinded by its own worldview - e.g. the focus on the nation-state. Definitions of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Franja
La Franja (; "The Strip"; an, Francha ) is the area of Catalan-speaking territories of eastern Aragon bordering Catalonia, in Spain. It literally means ''"the strip"'' and can also more properly be called (Aragonese Strip), (Western Strip) or (Eastern Strip of Aragon) in Catalan (in an, Francha Oriental d'Aragón, "Eastern Strip of Aragon"; or simply /, "Eastern Strip", or , "Aragonese Strip"; in es, Franja de Aragón, "Aragonese Strip"). ''La Franja'' is usually considered to be comprised by a part of the municipalities of the following Aragonese administrative ''comarcas'': la Ribagorza/Ribagorça, La Litera/La Llitera, Bajo Cinca/Baix Cinca, Bajo Aragón-Caspe/Baix Aragó-Casp, Bajo Aragón/Baix Aragó and Matarraña/Matarranya. ''La Franja'' has been part of Aragon since the medieval kingdom of Aragon; never in its history has it been part of Catalonia; however its population speaks in Catalan, presumably since the Middle Ages; consequently this territory is considere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas – Demographia, April 2018 Current day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ribera D'Ebre
Ribera d'Ebre () is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. in the Terres de l'Ebre, and that extends to both sides of the river Ebro between the reservoir of Riba-roja and Miravet Miravet is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera d'Ebre in the Province of Tarragona, Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nation .... It belongs to the province of Tarragona and its capital is Móra d'Ebre. GDP_nominal_per_capita = 44.400€ ($50.854) Municipalities References External linksOfficial website {{coord, 41, 05, N, 0, 38, E, type:adm2nd_source:cawiki, display=title Comarques of the Province of Tarragona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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