Naut Aran
Naut Aran | |
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| Sant Andreu church, in Salardú Sant Andreu church, in Salardú | |
| Location in Aran Location in Aran | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
| Community | File:Flag of Catalonia.svg Catalonia |
| Province | Province of Lleida Lleida |
| Entity | Aran Aran |
| Terçons | Arties e Garòs, Pujòlo |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | César Ruiz-Canela Nieto (2015)[1] (CDA) |
| Area | |
• Total | 255.8 km2 (98.8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,267 m (4,157 ft) |
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| Website | www |
Naut Aran (Occitan pronunciation: [ˈnawt aˈɾan]) is a municipality in eastern Aran, Catalonia. It has a population of . It is located in the terçons of Arties e Garòs and Pujòlo.
It is the second largest municipality in Catalonia in terms of surface area (225.8 km2, behind Tremp), and was created in 1967 by the merger of the municipalities of Arties, Salardú, Gessa, Tredòs and Bagergue: the former municipalities retain some privileges as "decentralised municipal entities" (entitats municipals descentralitzades, EMD).[1] The name literally means "Upper Valley" in Aranese, and both the Garonne (Garona) and the Noguera Pallaresa have their sources on the territory of the municipality. The town hall is in Salardú. The municipality is linked to Vielha by the C-28 road, which continues to Alt Àneu over the Port de la Bonaigua (2072 m). This road, the higher stretches of which are impassable in winter, was the only route between the Aran Valley and the rest of Spain before the opening of the Vielha tunnel in 1948.
Economy
[edit | edit source]The local economy is based almost entirely on tourism and winter sports. The ski resort of Vaquèira-Beret is one of the largest in the Pyrenees. A number of local churches have been classified as historic-artistic monuments:
- Church of Sant Andreu de Salardú, which houses a thirteenth-century sculpture of Christ (el Crist de Salardú)
- Church of Santa Maria, in Arties
- Church of Santa Eulària d'Unha (12th century)
Demography
[edit | edit source]Population figures from before 1967 are the totals for the five municipalities which combined to form Naut Aran.
| 1900 | 1930 | 1950 | 1970 | 1986 | 2007 |
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| 1169 | 1079 | 1173 | 881 | 1146 | 1716 |
Subdivisions
[edit | edit source]The municipality is composed of nine distinct settlements:
- Arties (445)
- Bagergue (65)
- Garòs (160), in the EMD of Arties e Garòs
- Gessa (127)
- Montgarri (1)
- Salardú (367)
- Tredòs (150)
- Unha (75), in the EMD of Tredòs e Unha
- Vaquèira (108)
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Arties
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Gessa
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Salardú
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Entitats municipals descentralitzades are governed by the Llei Municipal i de Règim Local de Catalunya (8/1987 de 15 d'abril de 1987). They are known as entidades locales menores in Castilian (also entitats locals menors in Catalan the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands).
References
[edit | edit source]- Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). Guia de Catalunya, Barcelona: Caixa de Catalunya. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Spanish). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Catalan).
External links
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- Official site
- Government data pages (in Catalan)
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