Cinca Medio Cinca Meya | |
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Country | Spain |
Autonomous community | Aragon |
Province | Huesca |
Capital | Monzón |
Area | |
• Total | 576.7 km2 (222.7 sq mi) |
Population (2006) | |
• Total | 23,072 |
• Density | 40/km2 (100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Largest municipality | Monzón |
The Cinca Medio is a comarca in eastern Aragon, Spain. It is named after river Cinca.
This comarca is bordered on the northwest by the Somontano de Barbastro comarca, to the east by La Litera, and to the south by the Bajo Cinca and Monegros.
It is one of the regions with the greatest population density (40 inhabitants per km) in Aragon. The main sources of income are industry and agriculture.
Fraga is the major town of the comarca of Bajo Cinca in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. It is located by the river Cinca. According to the 2014 census, the municipality has a population of 14,926 inhabitants.
Huesca, officially Huesca/Uesca, is a province of northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon. The capital is Huesca.
Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English, is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Its capital is the city of Zaragoza, which is also the capital of the autonomous community. Other towns in the province include La Almunia de Doña Godina, Borja, Calatayud, Caspe, Ejea de los Caballeros, Tarazona, and Utebo.
In Spain, a comarca is either a traditional territorial division without any formal basis, or a group of municipalities, legally defined by an autonomous community for the purpose of providing common local government services. In English, a comarca is equivalent to a district, county, area or zone.
Bajo Cinca or Baix Cinca is a comarca in eastern Aragon, Spain. It is named after river Cinca.
La Litera or La Llitera is an Aragonese comarca in the south-east of the province of Huesca.
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The N-211 is a highway in Aragon, Spain. It connects the Autovía A-2 between Alcolea del Pinar and Fraga through Monreal del Campo, Alcañiz and Caspe, communicating Madrid with Catalonia. It is an alternative route for N-II/A-2.
Velilla de Cinca or Vilella de Cinca is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 441 inhabitants.
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Somontano de Barbastro is a comarca in Province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain.
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Bajo Aragón, or Lower Aragon, is an administrative comarca in eastern central Aragon, Spain. It was first established in 1999. It has a population of 29,358 (2007) and an area of 1.304,2 km2. The seat of the comarca is in Alcañiz. It is located in Teruel Province, in the transitional area between the Iberian System and the Ebro Valley.
On 25 December 1084, at the Battle of Piedra Pisada, the Taifa of Zaragoza fought and probably defeated the Kingdom of Aragon on the road south from Naval to El Grado. The battle was a minor engagement of the ongoing Reconquista of Aragon, the process by which the riverine valleys of the southern slopes of the Pyrenees were gradually conquered and returned, after centuries of Muslim rule, to the control of Christian princes. The ruler of Aragon, who personally led his men in battle at Piedra Pisada, Sancho Ramírez, also ruled Kingdom of Navarre and was a major figure in the contemporary Reconquista.
Bajo Aragón-Caspe or Baix Aragó-Casp is a comarca in eastern Aragon, bordering the Spanish Autonomous Community of Catalonia.
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The Isábena is the principal tributary of the river Ésera, itself a tributary of the Cinca, which flows into the Ebro and thence to the Mediterranean Sea. Its head is 2,400 metres above sea level at a place called Es Sebollés, between the peaks Gallinero and Cibollés in the Pyrenees of High Aragon. Its valley lies primarily in the comarca of Ribagorza.
Zaragoza Comarca is a comarca in Aragon, Spain. It is located in the center of Zaragoza Province and includes Zaragoza metropolitan area.