Maresme
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Maresme (Catalan: el Maresme, Spanish: Maresme) is a comarca (county) located along the catalan mediterranean coast, between Barcelonès and Selva comarques, and also bordering with Vallès Oriental.
Its capital and largest city is Mataró (pop. 119,035 in 2007).
[edit] Geography
Maresme's territory occupies the long and narrow area between the Mediterranean Sea and the hills of Serralada Litoral (literally Coastal Mountains), and specifically Montenegre's and Corredor's hills in the northern half and Sant Mateu's hills in the southern half. This particular shape has conditioned both geography and history of this comarca. Probably the main distinct elements of its geography are the characteristic rieres (torrents). This short intermitent water streams, which cross the comarca transversally almost every hundred meters, produce powerful and dangerous floods when it rains.
Furthermore, Maresme has been historically very well connected with the rest of the comarca and with Barcelona thanks to old Camí Ral (Royal Way) (actual N-II main road) and railroad (Barcelona-Mataró railroad route (1848) was the first to be constructed in all the Iberian Peninsula). Communications have been enhanced in recent years with the construction (1969) of the C-32's Barcelona-Mataró section (actually the first autopista (highway) to be constructed in all the Iberian Peninsula) and its subsequent enlargement, the Mataró-Palafolls's section (1995).
[edit] Municipalities
Populations are from 2007's Spanish INE.
Total Maresme's population: 414,081
| Municipality | Population (2006) |
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| Alella | 8,998 |
| Arenys de Mar | 14,164 |
| Arenys de Munt | 7,807 |
| Argentona | 11,402 |
| Cabrera de Mar | 4,269 |
| Cabrils | 6,698 |
| Caldes d'Estrac | 2,672 |
| Calella | 18,034 |
| Canet de Mar | 13,181 |
| Dosrius | 4,658 |
| Malgrat de Mar | 17,822 |
| El Masnou | 21,935 |
| Mataró | 119,035 |
| Montgat | 9,778 |
| Òrrius | 487 |
| Palafolls | 8,061 |
| Pineda de Mar | 25,568 |
| Premià de Dalt | 9,788 |
| Premià de Mar | 27,590 |
| Sant Andreu de Llavaneres | 9,745 |
| Sant Cebrià de Vallalta | 3,075 |
| Sant Iscle de Vallalta | 1,193 |
| Sant Pol de Mar | 4,904 |
| Sant Vicenç de Montalt | 5,267 |
| Santa Susanna | 3,019 |
| Teià | 5,969 |
| Tiana | 7,417 |
| Tordera | 14,017 |
| Vilassar de Dalt | 8,476 |
| Vilassar de Mar | 19,052 |
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