Puente la Reina de Jaca (in Aragonese: ''Puen d'a Reina de Chaca'') is a municipality located in

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province of Huesca Huesca ( an, Uesca, ca, Osca), officially Huesca/Uesca, is a province of northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon. The capital is Huesca. Positioned just south of the central Pyrenees, Huesca borders France and the French Departments of Haute-Ga ...

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. According to the 2009

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), the municipality has a population of 218 inhabitants. Puente la Reina de Jaca is situated on the bank of the river

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next to a bridge which gave it its name. This region was reconquered in 833 by

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Villages

* Santa Engracia de Jaca * Javierregay

References

Municipalities in the Province of Huesca {{huesca-geo-stub