Vallès Oriental () is a comarca (county) in

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 no ...

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. Its capital is

Granollers Granollers () is a city in central Catalonia, about 30 kilometres north-east of Barcelona. It is the capital and most densely populated city in the comarca of Vallès Oriental. Granollers is now a bustling business centre, having grown from a ...

. Along with Vallès Occidental it forms the grand comarca of

Vallès El Vallès (or simply Vallès) is a historical county in Catalonia, Spain, located in the center of the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range. It is nowadays represented by two separate administrative divisions ( ''comarques'') which are part of the Barcel ...

. In May 2015, Vallès Oriental lost four municipalities -

Castellcir Castellcir is a village in the province of Barcelona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of and the population in 2014 was 718. The municipality includes an exclave to the west. Since May 2015 it has b ...

Castellterçol Castellterçol is a town in Catalonia. It is in the province of Barcelona, in the comarca of Moianès; until May 2015 it was in Vallès Oriental Vallès Oriental () is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. Its capital is Granollers. Along w ...

, Granera,

Sant Quirze Safaja Sant Quirze Safaja (; ) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Vallès Oriental in Catalonia, Spain. Since May 2015 it has been part of the new comarca of Moianès; previously it was in Vallès Oriental Vallès Oriental () is a comarca ( ...

- to the new comarca of Moianès.

Municipalities

Vegetation

The natural vegetation of Vallès Oriental is typically

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, with a predominance of Holm oak,

cork oak ''Quercus suber'', commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the core ...

, and

Aleppo pine ''Pinus halepensis'', commonly known as the Aleppo pine, also known as the Jerusalem pine, is a pine native to the Mediterranean region. Description ''Pinus halepensis'' is a small to medium-sized tree, tall, with a trunk diameter up to , ex ...

. There are some oaks (in the narrow sense of the word) at Montnegre and Montseny. The latter also features European beech and silver fir woods.

References

External links

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Information about Vallès Oriental from the Generalitat de Catalunya (in Catalan)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Valles Oriental Vallès Comarques of the Province of Barcelona