Capella (Huesca)

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Capella municipality
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Capella (Huesca) (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Aragon
Province : Huesca
Comarca : Ribagorza
Coordinates 42 ° 12 '  N , 0 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 12 '  N , 0 ° 24'  E
Height : 526  msnm
Area : 60.7 km²
Residents : 349 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 5.75 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 22480
Municipality number  ( INE ): 22080
administration
Mayor : Ángela Sarriera Socias ( PSOE )
Website : www.capella.es

Capella is a municipality in the province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain . Capella is in the Comarca Ribagorza in the valley of the Río Isábena .

Municipal area

Laguarres

In 1926 the village of La Puebla de Mon left Capella and joined Graus . The municipality has included the former municipality of Laguarres since 1965. The small town of Pociello also belongs to Capella.

Linguistic assignment

Laguarres is assigned in some sources to the Catalan-speaking area of Franja de Aragón , while Capella and Porciello traditionally belong to the Aragonese- speaking area.

Population development

Demographic data for Capella from 1842 to 2001:

1842 1877 1887 1897 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1981 1991 2001
543 791 600 588 592 622 610 611 561 498 439 563 534 456 383

Attractions

  • Parish Church of San Martín (from Tours)
  • Hermitage of San Martín de la Sierra
  • Hermitage of San Ramón
  • San Vicente Hermitage
  • Romanesque bridge, protected as a Bien de Interés Cultural since 2002

Personalities

  • José Francisco Clavera Oncins (Capella, 1721 - Bologna (Italy), 1788). Jesuit and naturalist.

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. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España

literature

  • Ramiro Grau Morancho (Cathedral): Laguarres, Apuntes históricos , 2009.

Web links

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