Caltanissetta Free Community Consortium
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State : | Italy |
Region : | Sicily |
Capital: | Caltanissetta |
Area : | 2,125 km² |
Residents : | 260,779 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
Population density : | 123 inhabitants / km² |
Number of municipalities: | 22nd |
License plate : | CL |
ISO-3166-2 identification : | IT-CL |
Website: | Caltanissetta Free Community Consortium |
The Free Community Consortium Caltanissetta (Italian Libero consorzio comunale di Caltanissetta ) is an administrative unit of the Autonomous Region of Sicily in Italy . The capital is Caltanissetta . It was created through the transformation of the Province of Caltanissetta (Italian Provincia di Caltanissetta ) with Regional Law No. 8 of March 24, 2014 and the provisions of Regional Law No. 15 of August 4, 2015.
The Free Community Consortium is located on the south coast of Sicily. In the west it borders on the Free Parish Consortium Agrigento , in the north on the Metropolitan City of Palermo , in the east on the Free Parish Consortium Enna , the Metropolitan City of Catania and the Free Parish Consortium Ragusa . It is divided into 22 municipalities. The municipality of Resuttano is an enclave in the metropolitan city of Palermo.
260,779 inhabitants live in an area of 2125 km² (as of December 31, 2019) . The main occupations are agriculture and industry. Sulfur mining , which was important for the area in the 19th century , lost its importance at the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1950s , oil was discovered around Gela , the economic center and the largest city of the Free Community Consortium.
Largest communities
(As of December 31, 2019)
Gela | 74,075 |
Caltanissetta | 61,331 |
Niscemi | 26,274 |
San Cataldo | 21,859 |
Mazzarino | 11,445 |
Riesi | 11,110 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ↑ Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana - Regione Sicilia, Legge regional 24 March 2014, n.8 : Istituzione dei liberi Consorzi comunali e delle Città metropolitane , accessed on 23 June 2020
- ↑ Gazzetta Ufficiale della Regione Siciliana - Legge 4 agosta 2015, n.15 : Disposizioni in materia di liberi Consorzi comunali e Città metropolitane (PDF file; 213 kB), accessed on June 23, 2020