Vallès Oriental () is a
comarca (county) in the
Barcelona region in
Catalonia
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(
Spain
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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 ...
. Along with
Vallès Occidental
Vallès Occidental () is a Comarques of Catalonia, comarca (county) in the Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona, Barcelona region in Catalonia (Spain). It has two capitals, Sabadell and Terrassa. Along with Vallès Oriental, it forms the historical Va ...
it forms the historical
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 of Catalonia, ''comarques'') which a ...
region.
In May 2015, Vallès Oriental lost four municipalities -
Castellcir,
Castellterçol,
Granera,
Sant Quirze Safaja - to the new comarca of
Moianès.
Municipalities
Vegetation
The natural vegetation of Vallès Oriental is typically
Mediterranean
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, with a predominance of
Holm oak,
cork oak, 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. It was officially named by the botanist Philip Miller in his 1768 book ''The Gardener's Dictionary''; he pro ...
. 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.
Politics and government
Comarcal council
References
External links
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Information about Vallès Oriental from the Generalitat de Catalunya (in Catalan)
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Vallès
Comarques of the Province of Barcelona