Estopiñán del Castillo

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Estopiñán del Castillo municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Aragon
Province : Huesca
Comarca : Ribagorza
Coordinates 42 ° 0 ′  N , 0 ° 33 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 0 ′  N , 0 ° 33 ′  E
Height : 730  msnm
Area : 88.7 km²
Residents : 120 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 1.35 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 22589
Municipality number  ( INE ): 22105
administration
Mayor : Antonio Lloan Fuste ( PP )

Estopiñán del Castillo ( Aragonese Estupinyán , Catalan Estopanyà ) is a Catalan-speaking municipality of the Franja de Aragón in the province of Huesca in the Autonomous Community of Aragon in Spain . It is located in the Comarca Ribagorza on the Río Guart, a tributary of the Noguera Ribagorzana .

Municipal area

Aerinite from Estopiñán del Castillo

The municipality includes the localities:

  • Caserras del Castillo, now largely in ruins and almost uninhabited, was incorporated after 1960.
  • Estopiñán
  • Saganta

Population development

1991 1996 2001 2004
184 195 217 217

history

The castle of Estopiñán was conquered by Raimund Berengar I (Barcelona) in the course of the Reconquista around 1058 .

Attractions

Santa Sofia in Caserras
The parish church
  • Gothic parish church of San Salvador with a polygonal apse
  • Hermitage of San Quilez in Saganta
  • Hermitage of Santa Sofia in Caserras

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 : Estopiñán del Castillo  - collection of images, videos and audio files