Alcampell

Alcampell municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Huesca
Comarca :	La litera
Coordinates	41 ° 54 ' N , 0 ° 26' E Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ' N , 0 ° 26' E
Height :	499 msnm
Area :	58.0 km²
Residents :	631 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	10.88 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	22560
Municipality number ( INE ):	22016
administration
Mayor :	Josep Antoni Chauvell Larregola ( PSOE )
Website :	Website in Catalan ( Memento of December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Alcampell

Alcampell ( El Campell in Catalan ) is a municipality in the province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain . It is located in the Comarca La Litera in the predominantly Catalan-speaking Franja de Aragón .

Municipal area

The now uninhabited exclave Pelegriñón (Catalan Pelegrinyó) with a small Romanesque church and the hermitage of Santa Ana belongs to the community .

history

Traces of Iberian settlement have been found in the municipality. The local history, however, only begins with the defensive system (with a fortress) that was established in the time of the Moors . Around 1090, the Christian reconquest by Count Armengol IV. Von Urgell took place . The place is mentioned for the first time in 1098. In the period that followed, Alcampell was at the intersection of the interests of the Counts of Urgell and the kings of Aragon. In 1785 the separation from Tamarite de Litera took place .