Province of Gérone

The province of Gérone (in Catalan, Província de Girona , in Spanish, Provincia de Gerona ) is a province of Spain located in the north-eastern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia.

Its official name is the name Catalan of Girona .

It is limited by the Provinces of Barcelona and Lérida to the west. It is frontier with the France by the department of the the Eastern Pyrenees in north. The border is marked by the the Pyrenees. Its coast, the Costa Brava is bathed in the east and the south by the Mediterranean.

In 2005 it counted nearly 663.793 inhabitants. Its capital is Gérone, where about the eighth of its total population saw.

Part of its territory - the municipality of Llivia - is an enclave separate of the remainder of Spain and surrounded by France.

Climate

The climate is clearly continental. Gérone is inside the moderate zone. The average temperatures oscillate between 13ºC and 17ºC. The province is colder in comparison in north and the east, whereas the zones the hottest heats are on the coast (influenced by the tepid water of the Mediterranean). The temperature with the mountain is increasingly lower than in plain. In winter, it happens that it freezes everywhere, except on the coast.

The rains are more frequent in the east and in the mountains, rarer in the grounds of the plain.

Administrative division

The province of Gérone is divided administratively by the Comarque S of

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