Lanaja

Lanaja municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Huesca
Comarca :	Monegros
Coordinates	41 ° 46 ′ N , 0 ° 20 ′ W Coordinates: 41 ° 46 ′ N , 0 ° 20 ′ W
Height :	369 msnm
Area :	183.7 km²
Residents :	1,174 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	6.39 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	22250
Municipality number ( INE ):	22137
administration
Mayor :	Cecilio Boned Yago PSOE

Lanaja

Lanaja is a Spanish municipality in the province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon . It is located in the Comarca of Monegros on the Canal de los Monegros.

Parish parts

Cantalobos
Lanaja
Orillena

history

The place should have been inhabited as early as the Neolithic . In the 19th century he suffered from the clashes of the Carlist Wars and raids by the Bandoleros who had their refuge in the Sierra de Alcubierre . In 1875 the famous bandit El Cucaracha (Mariano Gavín Suñén) was shot here. In July 1936, during the Spanish Civil War , the place was initially taken by Falangists from Saragossa , who killed five republican-minded residents on their retreat, but won them back at the end of the month by troops of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista . As a result, the place was bombed by the Franco government's air force.