Tremp

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Tremp

Province	Lleida
Comarca	Pallars Jussà
Population (2005)	5286
Area	303.97 km²
Population density (2005)	17.4 /km²
Elevation	468 m
Demonym	n/a
[[Pallars Jussà]]

This article is about Tremp, Spain. For the card game Tremp, see Tremp (card game).

This article is about Tremp, Spain. For the tremp as in Israeli hitchhiking, see tremping.

Tremp is a municipality and capital of the comarca of the Pallars Jussà in Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest municipality in Catalonia in terms of area (303.97 km²),^[1] accounting for nearly a quarter of the total area of the comarca and divided into three separate areas. The town of Tremp (population 4647 as of 2005) is situated in the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa river below Talarn and the Talarn Dam. The largest portion of the municipal territory lies to the west of the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa and stretches as far as the Noguera Ribagorçana river. The third portion is an exclave of the comarca within the municipality of el Pont de Suert in the Alta Ribagorça. The town is served by the C-13 road which runs along the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa.

1 Demography
2 Subdivisions
3 See also
4 Note
5 References

[edit] Demography

Demographical evolution

1900	1930	1950	1970	1986	2005
4896	6454	6396	5785	5727	5286

[edit] Subdivisions

The municipality of Tremp includes twenty-eight outlying settlements: populations are given as of 2005.

Acadèmia General Bàsica de Subofficials (26)
Aulàs (15)
El Castellet (3)
Casterner de les Olles (1)
Castissent (20), on the left bank of the Noguera Ribagorçana river
Claramunt (1)
Claret (2)
Eroles (11)
Escarlà (2)
Espills (5)
Espluga Freda (1)
Espluga de Serra (45)
Fígols de Tremp (2)
Gurp (8)
Els Masos de Tamúrcia (12)
Palau de Noguera (85)
El Pont d'Orrit (15)
Puigcercós (52)
Puigverd (1)
Sant Adrià (4)
Santa Engràcia (24), with sulfurous springs
Sapeira (2)
Suterranya (69)
Tendrui (5)
Tercui (2), on a hill above the Noguera Ribagorçana
Torogó (2)
La Torre de Tamúrcia (17)
Vilamitjana (207), on the road to Artesa de Segre

[edit] See also

Talarn Dam

[edit] Note

^ The municipality of Tortosa is historically larger than Tremp, but was subdivided into five separate municipalities between 1977 and 1983.

[edit] References

Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). Guia de Catalunya, Barcelona:Caixa de Catalunya. ISBN 84-87135-01-3 (Spanish). ISBN 84-87135-02-1 (Catalan).

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