Gombrèn

Gombrèn municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Girona
Comarca :	Ripollés
Coordinates	42 ° 15 '  N , 2 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 15 '  N , 2 ° 5'  E
Height :	919  msnm
Area :	43.64 km²
Residents :	188 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	4.31 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	17531
Municipality number  ( INE ):	17080
administration
Mayor :	Eudald Picas i Mitjavila ( CiU )

Gombrèn ( called Gombreny until 1984 ) is a Catalan municipality in the comarca of Ripollès .

Demographics

For a few centuries Gombrèn had barely 20 inhabitants, only since the 18th century have there been several hundred, in 1787 and 1857 even more than 1000 were counted. Since then, the population has decreased again and is currently around 200 inhabitants.

The city's best-known son is Francisco Coll (1812–1875), priest and founder of a Dominican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who was beatified in 1979 and canonized in 2009.

Web links

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

• Pàgina web de l'Ajuntament
• Informació de la Generalitat de Catalunya
• Informació de l'Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya

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).