Ansó

Anso municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Huesca
Comarca :	Jacetania
Coordinates	42 ° 45 ′  N , 0 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 45 ′  N , 0 ° 50 ′  W
Height :	860  msnm
Area :	224.05 km²
Residents :	405 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	1.81 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	22728
Municipality number  ( INE ):	22028
administration
Mayor :	Félix Ipas Barba (PSOE)

View of Ansó

Ansó is a Spanish municipality in the province of Huesca in the far northwest of the autonomous community of Aragon in the comarca of Jacetania . It lies in the valley of the Río Veral, which flows from north to south, in the western Aragonese Pyrenees, and borders France and Navarre . The village of Zuriza also belongs to the municipality , while the small Fago to the west still forms an independent municipality. The now uninhabited village of Santa Lucía, located in the valley of the Río Veral below Ansó, already belongs to the municipality of Valle de Hecho .

geography

The elongated valley of Ansó opens to the south over the gorge Foz de Biniés to the valley of the Aragón . It is connected via a pass road with the Roncal valley in Navarra, which is adjacent to the west, and via another pass road with Hecho in the municipality of Valle de Hecho in the Aragón Subordán valley in the east. The highest mountain in the municipality is the Peña Forca (2,391 m).

history

The place was granted various royal privileges in 1272. In 1375 there was an arbitration ruling on grazing rights between the neighboring areas of the Béarn and the Roncal valley in Navarre , which led to a still existing delivery of three cows ( Tributo de las Tres Vacas ) to the Roncalese in exchange for pasture use.

economy

Historically, cattle breeding in the form of transhumance was predominant. Agriculture is affected by the altitude of the place. In Ansó, wood processing was also important in the past.

Labor emigration ("emigración golondrina") led women workers to manufacture espadrilles in Mauléon-Licharre in France.

Tourism has gained importance in recent times. In the far northwest of the municipality are the cross-country skiing slopes of Linza.

politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council
Political party	2003	2007	2011	2015
PSOE de Aragon	-	4th	4th	-
PAR	-	3	3	-
CHA	7th
Total	7th	7th	7th	7th

Source: Spanish Ministry of the Interior

Linguistic situation

In addition to Spanish (castellano), Ansotano, a variant of the Aragonese language , is spoken in the municipality .

Population development

1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1981	1991	1996	2001	2005	2009
1,192	1,136	950	1,078	957	992	831	682	486	426	509	533	525	497

Attractions

Typical houses

• The special architecture of the place with narrow, "arteas" passages between the houses.
• The parish church of San Pedro, a Gothic fortification from the 16th century with a baroque altar and an organ built in France from the 18th century and an ethnological museum.
• A medieval tower in which Queen Blanche II should have been imprisoned.

Community partnerships

 France Borce

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ The Tribute of the Three Cows. Retrieved June 11, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Resultados provisionales - Ansó Ministerio del Interior - Subsecretaría Dirección General de Política Interior - 2011, accessed on July 11, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Ansó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.valledeanso.com regularly updated data on the Ansó Valley.