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The
Chartered Community of Navarre
Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...
is divided in 12 regions —named ''eskualdeak'' in basque and ''comarcas'' in Spanish—, which are juridical figures constituted as local administrative divisions designed to provide local proximity services. They follow the ancient divisions of the Kingdom of Navarre
The Kingdom of Navarre (; , , , ), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona (), was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France.
The medieval state took ...
, which include figures such as the ''merindade'' or the ''almiradio''. Currently, Navarre
Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...
is divided into 12 eskualdeak/comarcas (''regions'') and 4 azpieskualdeak/subcomarcas (''subregions'') since the 04/2019 Foral Law approved by the Barkos government on 2019. However, the process of dissolution of the old entities and creation of the new ones was stopped by the following Chivite government
Chivite is a traditional winery in Navarra
Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomo ...
, making it today still unachieved, even though the eskualdeak/comarcas exist officially.
2019-''today''
The actual distribution was approved by Barkos government via 04/2019 Foral Law, dividing Navarre in 12 eskualdeak/comarcas and 4 azpieskualdeak/subcomarcas:2000-2019
Until 2019, the division was made following ''Zonificación Navarra 2000'', approved in 2000, which looked like the following:
References
*''Atlas de Navarra, Geografía e Historia'', edited by the Departamento de Educación del Gobierno de Navarra y EGN Comunicación, 2006 {{ISBN, 84-934512-1-5