Plan, Aragon

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Plan
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Country Spain
Autonomous community Aragon
Province Huesca
Comarca Sobrarbe
Area
 • Total
87.4 km2 (33.7 sq mi)
Elevation
1,119 m (3,671 ft)
Population
 (2024-01-01) [1]
 • Total
279
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
View of Ibon de Plan lake with Pena de las Once in the background Ibon de Plan (Huesca, Aragon).jpg
View of Ibon de Plan lake with Peña de las Once in the background

Plan is a municipality located in the Sobrarbe comarca, province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2010 census the municipality has a population of 336 inhabitants, and is the main populated center in the Gistau Valley. [2] Its postal code is 22367.

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The Ibón de Plan or Basa de la Mora lake is located within its municipal term and is said to be enchanted according to locals.

The village is one of the last places where Chistabino, the local dialect of Aragonese can be heard. [3]

The "caravan of women"

In 1985, Plan made Spanish news [4] since local bachelors had organized a "caravan of women" after watching the American Western Westward the Women (1951), about recruiting single women to the frontier. At the time, the town had more than forty single men and just one single woman. Most of the local women had emigrated because of lack of work.

An advertisement in the press calling for "women between 20 and 40 with marriage intentions for Pyrenees village" resulted in 33 marriages, and the revitalization of Plan. Since then, other villages have organized similar "caravans". [5]

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References

  1. ↑ National Statistics Institute (13 December 2024). "Municipal Register of Spain of 2024".
  2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)
  3. ↑ "Endangered Languages Project - Aragonese - Chistabino". www.endangeredlanguages.com. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  4. ↑ (in Spanish) Los hijos de la caravana, sin plan, El Mundo , 16 January 2005.
  5. ↑ caravanademujeres.es

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