Aldover

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Aldover
Location in Catalonia
Coordinates: 40°52′54″N0°30′04″E / 40.88167°N 0.50111°E / 40.88167; 0.50111 Coordinates: 40°52′54″N0°30′04″E / 40.88167°N 0.50111°E / 40.88167; 0.50111
Country Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Community Flag of Catalonia.svg  Catalonia
Province Tarragona
Comarca Baix Ebre
Government
  mayorRosalia Pegueroles Gisbert (2019) [1]
Area
[2]
  Total20.2 km2 (7.8 sq mi)
Elevation
14 m (46 ft)
Population
 (2018) [3]
  Total838
  Density41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Website www.aldover.altanet.org

Aldover is a municipality in the comarca of Baix Ebre, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain.

There was a RENFE railway line from Tortosa to Alcañiz and Zaragoza that used to pass through this town until 1973. [4] This line was dismantled as a result of a 1962 World Bank report advising the Spanish State to concentrate investment in the great lines and to abandon the less profitable railways connecting rural areas. Since the line was terminated, the rails were pulled off and the Aldover train station buildings lie abandoned.

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References

  1. "Ajuntament d'Aldover". Generalitat of Catalonia . Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  2. "El municipi en xifres: Aldover". Statistical Institute of Catalonia . Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  3. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  4. El Punt - El cruel divorci entre Tortosa i el tren