Beranuy, in
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
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and
Aragonese: Beranui is a municipality located in the
Ribagorza (comarca) comarca,
province of Huesca,
Aragon
Aragon ( , ; Spanish and an, Aragón ; ca, Aragó ) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces (from north to sou ...
,
Spain. According to the 2010
census (
INE), the municipality has a population of 104 inhabitants.
The municipality was created in 1966 with the union of municipalities of Beranui and
Calvera, in a concentration process in the State.
Since 2011 the official name of the municipality is ''Beranuy'' (), which is an adaptation of Catalan name (Beranui)() in Spanish. In 1966 the municipality received the name of "Veracruz" (). The
paronym ''Veracruz'' () is a
Hispanicization
Hispanicization ( es, hispanización) refers to the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by Hispanic culture or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-Hispanic becomes Hispanic. Hispanicization is il ...
too of the traditional name ''Beranui'', that disregarded the natural linguistic correspondence.
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The 9th - 11th century monastery of Santa María de Obarra is located within the municipal term at the foot of the Mountains of Sis
The Mountains of Sis ( ca, Serra de Sis, or ''Serra del Cis'') ( es, Sierra de Sis) is a long mountain range of the Pre-Pyrenees. They are located between the valleys of rivers Isábena and the Escales Reservoir, Noguera Ribagorzana, in the Riba ...
.
Villages
The following villages within the municipal term of Beranuy
* Ballabriga
* Biascas de Obarra
* Calbera
*Les Ferreries de Calvera
Les Ferreries de Calvera or Las Herrerías is a locality located in the municipality of Beranuy, in Province of Huesca, Huesca province, Aragon, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 11.
Geography
Les Ferreries de Calvera is located 125km e ...
*Morens
Morens (, ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Morens, Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into ...
* Santa María de Obarra
* Pardinella
Uninhabited villages
* Formons
* Ralui
Gallery
File:Beranui.JPG, View of Beranui
File:Obarra1.JPG, View of the Santa María de Obarra Monastery
File:MonestirObarraSantPau-2818.jpg, View of Saint Paul church near Obarra Monastery
See also
*Isábena River
Isábena (), in ca, label=Catalan, Isàvena, italics=no (), or in an, Isabana, italics=no, is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 278 inhabita ...
*El Turbón
El Turbón is a mountain massif of the Pre-Pyrenees, located in the province of Huesca, the most northerly province in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. This long mountain is aligned N - S.
It is fairly easy to climb El Turbón, but ...
References
External links
CAI Aragon
Ribagorza
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