Belmonte de San José

Belmonte de San José municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Teruel
Comarca :	Bajo Aragon
Coordinates	40 ° 53 '  N , 0 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 53 '  N , 0 ° 4'  E
Height :	661  msnm
Area :	33.96 km²
Residents :	113 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	3.33 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	44642
Municipality number  ( INE ):	44038
administration
Official language :	spanish and catalan
Mayor :	José Javier de Miguel Martín (PP)
Website :	[1] (not official)

overall view

Belmonte de San José ( Catalan : Bellmunt de Mesquí ) is a Spanish municipality in the province of Teruel in the Autonomous Region of Aragón . It is located around 23 kilometers south of Alcañiz in the valley of the Río Mezquín in the Comarca Bajo Aragón (Baix Aragó) in the predominantly Catalan-speaking area of Franja de Aragón . On January 1, 2019, the community had 113 inhabitants.

Toponymy and History

The place was first mentioned in 1232 as Belmonte and was given the addition of de Mezquín in 1916, which was changed in 1980 to the existing addition (after a hermitage in the municipality).

Residents

Development of the population

2001	2006	2011	2013
142	144	129	117

Attractions

Parish church

Oratory of the Casa del Solá

• El Salvador parish church, completed in 1742
• town hall
• The ice cellar (Nevera), first mentioned in 1636
• Portal del Sol gate
• Several hermitages and chapels.
• Houses Casa Bosque and Casa del Solá
• Two bridges: Puente viejo and Puente de la Miranda

Personalities

• Juan Pío Membrado Ejerique (1851–1923), journalist and writer, born here.

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).

Web links

Commons : Bellmunt de Mesquí  - collection of images, videos and audio files