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Yesa Reservoir
The Yesa Reservoir is located in the Pyrenees, and is formed with the damming of the Aragon River, in the Navarre town of Yesa (Spain), although the largest area of the reservoir is located in the province of Zaragoza, extending from east to west. It is located to the northwest of the Aragonese province of Zaragoza and to the east of Navarre. Most of it floods lands of the Berdun Canal, in the Aragonese region of Jacetania in the municipalities of Sigüés, Ruesta, Escó, and Tiermas.Madrid Provincial Court (5th Section). Judgment No. 43/2006 of 16 MayARP\2006\328 It is known by the nickname ''Mar de los Pirineos'' (English: sea of the Pyrenees) and is located at the entrance of the aforementioned. It is the largest navigable area of Aragon and it is the source of the Bardenas Canal that transfers water to the Ribera area south of Navarra and irrigates the Bardenas Reales and the Cinco Villas region of Zaragoza. It is also used for water supply and as a power station. It ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
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Cinco Villas, Aragon
Cinco Villas, in Aragonese: Zinco Billas, is a comarca in Aragon, Spain. This comarca is named after the five historical towns of Tauste, Ejea de los Caballeros (capital comarcal), Sádaba, Uncastillo and Sos del Rey Católico. The former capital of the area was Sos del Rey Católico. Cinco Villas borders with Navarre in the west and completely surrounds its exclave of Petilla de Aragón. Municipalities Ardisa, Asín, Bagüés, Biel, Biota, Castejón de Valdejasa, Castiliscar, Ejea de los Caballeros, Erla, El Frago, Isuerre, Layana, Lobera de Onsella, Longás, Luesia, Luna, Marracos, Navardún, Orés, Las Pedrosas, Piedratajada, Los Pintanos, Puendeluna, Sádaba, Sierra de Luna, Sos del Rey Católico, Tauste, Uncastillo, Undués de Lerda, Urriés and Valpalmas. See also *Castejón Mountains The Castejón Mountains ( es, Montes de Castejón) are a mountain range in the Cinco Villas comarca, Aragon, Spain, located about to the north of Zaragoza. They are named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Bayo
El Bayo is a settlement in the municipality of Ejea de los Caballeros, in the province of Zaragoza. History Along with other settler villages of Ejea de los Caballeros, this locality was inaugurated on April 8, 1959, and quickly the first settlers began to arrive, coming from Ejea, Biota, Carenas, Nuévalos, Farasdués, Gallur, Rivas, Uncastillo and Tiermas, among others. The village took its name from the medieval settlement that had existed in the same place from 1100 until 1380, when it was razed due to the clashes between Aragon and Navarre. In 1146, Ramiro II, nicknamed the ''Monk'', founded a Cistercian monastery, whose ruins still remain with important Romanesque remains. These remains, together with three other medieval buildings and a necropolis from the same period, form the ruins known as ''Las Torres de El Bayo''. At its foundation, El Bayo had a total of 165 houses and 114 settlers; where Tiermas was one of the towns that helped to populate this locality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villanúa
Villanúa (in Aragonese: ''Bellanuga'') is a Pyrenean municipality in Spain in the north of Huesca province, in la Jacetania, set where the Aragon valley gets wider. Its name refers to the "new village" repopulated in the late 10th century. Villanúa's altitude is 953 m and it covers 58.2 km2. The village is at the bottom of mount Collarada (2886 m) and in 2018 had 447 inhabitants. It is a tourist locality located between Jaca and the ski stations of Candanchú and Astún and near the French border (12 km. by the Tunnel of Somport). Visiting The old centre, the church of San Esteban (with a wooden 11th-century Romanesque image of the Virgin, "Our Lady of the Angels"), the cave of '' Las Güixas'', the railway viaduct, dolmens, the Chapel of San Juan and the abandoned villages of Cenarbe and Aruej, with its little Romanesque church of San Vicente (12th century), all in a beautiful environment crossed by the Aragon river. It lies on the old Aragonese pilgrim's road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cenarbe
Cenarbe is an abandoned agricultural and livestock village. The locality belongs to the Spanish municipality of Villanúa ( Huesca, Aragón). It was located at 1200 meters above sea level. Toponymic with origin in the old Basque ''Azenari-be'', soil of foxes, the suffix -''be'' (soil, lower part) would refer to the situation of the village in a small plain at the foot of Mount Vacún 2,114 meters high. History Historically it was an independent municipality until, in 1849, it became part (like Aruej) of the Villanúa Town Council, in a process of administrative rationalization that included small villages in larger ones. According to the Dictionary by Madoz, in 1858 it had 182 inhabitants and, apart from the 12th century church of San Pedro, this village also had a tower-house and, as an anecdote, it was noted for the presence of bears. Its inhabitants were nicknamed manzañones. In November 1955, Forestry Heritage began, based on a 1927 Decree related to the construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaca
Jaca (; in Aragonese: ''Chaca'' or ''Xaca'') is a city of northeastern Spain in the province of Huesca, located near the Pyrenees and the border with France. Jaca is an ancient fort on the Aragón River, situated at the crossing of two great early medieval routes, one from Toulousse to Santiago de Compostela and Pau to Zaragoza. Jaca was the city out of which the County and Kingdom of Aragon developed. It was the capital of Aragon until 1097 and also the capital of Jacetania. Villages Besides Jaca town, there are a number of outlying villages in Jaca's municipality, including the ski resort of Astún. History The origins of the city are obscure, but its name is apparently of Iacetani origin, mentioned by Strabo as one of the most celebrated of the numerous small tribes inhabiting the Ebro basin. Strabo adds that their territory lay on the site of the wars in the 1st century BC between Sertorius and Pompey. According to the atlas of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds Jaca was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Garcipollera
''La Garcipollera'' (in Aragonese and officially ''A Garzipollera''), also known as Garcipollera Valley, is a small area of the Aragonese Pyrenees, within the Jacetania, in the province of Huesca, practically coinciding with the basin of the Ijuez river, a tributary of Aragon. It is characteristic because most of its villages were depopulated during the 20th century. Geography Located in the upper part of the Aragón river near Jaca and before the middle Pyrenean depression or Berdún Canal, in the basin of the Ijuez river and its surroundings, the valley comprises a space delimited by the foothills of the Collarada massif, the Acumuer valley and the Aragón river. Some sources consider it to be part of the ''Aragón valley'', also known as the ''Canfranc valley''. History Ancient and Middle Ages The first sources of the toponym are found in the ''Libro de la Cadena del Concejo de Jaca'', referring to the valley as ''ualle cepollaria'', which would derive to the form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosa De Garcipollera
Yosa de Garcipollera is an abandoned town belonging to the municipality of Jaca, in the province of Huesca, in Spain. It is part of the Garcipollera Valley, in the region of Jacetania, in the autonomous community of Aragon. History This village has no population, after having been expropriated in the 1960s for the construction of the Yesa Reservoir, with the intention of replanting it with pine trees to prevent the accumulation of sediments by the rains from accelerating the clogging of the newly built reservoir. Demographics Locality Demographic data of the town of Yosa de Garcipollera since 1900. * It has not been included in the Nomenclature since 1970. * Data refer to the ''de jure'' population. Former municipality Demographic data of the municipality of Yosa de Garcipollera since 1842: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acín
Acín is an unpopulated village in Spain, within the municipality of Jaca, in the province of Huesca. It is located in the valley of the Garcipollera, in the Aragonese region of the Jacetania. It is not inhabited, after having been expropriated in the 1960s for the construction of the Yesa Reservoir, with the intention of replanting it with pine trees to prevent the accumulation of sediments caused by the rains from accelerating the clogging of the newly built reservoir. Geography The remains of Acín, today in complete ruins and invaded by vegetation, are located in the valley of the Ijuez river, a tributary of the Aragón river, in the Garcipollera, at a short distance from the riverbed of the aforementioned river. The name Garcipollera originates from having been known as ''vallis Cepollaria'' in Roman times, which in Spanish translates as ''onion valley''. The only remaining buildings are the ruins of the Romanesque church of San Juan Bautista. On the river bank, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergosa
Bergosa is an unpopulated settlement belonging to the municipality of Jaca, in the region of Jacetania, province of Huesca, Aragon. It is part of the Garcipollera. Toponymy According to Agustín Ubieto, the first mention of the place dates from 948 or 962, in the work of his brother, Antonio Ubieto, ''Cartulario de San Juan de la Peña II'', in ''Textos Medievales'', 6 (Valencia, 1963) and documents the variations ''Bergossa, Bergosi, Bergasa, Uergosa, Uergossa'' and ''Bergosa''. Geography In 1966, the place was expropriated, as in the rest of the Garcipollera, in order to carry out an important reforestation of conifers on its slopes as a measure to retain the erosion caused by the construction of the Yesa Reservoir. Demographics Locality Demographic data on the town of Bergosa since 1900: * It has not been included in the Nomenclator since 1970. * Data refer to ''de jure'' population. Former municipality Demographic data of the municipality of Bergosa sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bescós De Garcipollera
''Bescós de Garcipollera'' or ''Bescós de la Garcipollera'' is a Spanish settlement belonging to the municipality of Jaca, in the Jacetania, province of Huesca, Aragon. It is located in the valley of the Garcipollera. Geography It is located in the lower part of the valley of the Ijuez river, in the valley of the Garcipollera. Etymology For Manuel Benito Moliner, from the '' Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses'', there are four possible etymologies or explanations for the origin of the toponym: firstly, it could be an anthroponym, that is, a toponym derived from a name or anthroponym, which in this case would be that of the holder of the estate or ''fundus'', a ''Viscus'' in Latin; the second possibility would be to relate it to the word forest (''bosque''); the third, to derive it from ''osca'', in the sense of ''land put under cultivation'' (which could fit with the late cultivation of the Garcipollera on the land of Bescós). History It is estimated that it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villanovilla
Villanovilla (in Aragonese language, Aragonese ''Villanoviella'') is a Spanish language, Spanish Human settlement, settlement belonging to the municipality of Jaca, in the Jacetania, province of Huesca, Aragon. Geography Villanovilla is located in the lower part of the valley of the Ijuez river, a tributary of the Aragón (river), Aragon river, in the La Garcipollera, Garcipollera. History Unlike other towns in the valley, its urban center was reserved in property by its residents, when the State Forestry Patrimony acquired the land in the valley for reforestation. After years of depopulation, Villanovilla managed to save itself from abandonment, thanks to the rehabilitation of its houses. Demographics Settlement Demographic data of Villanovilla since 1900: Former municipality Demographic data of the municipality of Villanovilla since 1842: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
