Sobrarbe

The Sobrarbe is a small Pyrenean area of approximately 2200 km ² and 7300 inhabitants, located in the north of the Spain, in Aragon, in the north of the Province of Huesca. She is recognized like adminisrative entity of Aragon as a Comarque.

The administrative capital of Sobrarbe is the town of Boltaña, while the economic capital is Aínsa. This area belongs to évêché of Barbastro.

In XIe century the county of Sobrarbe was high with the row of kingdom by the king of Navarre Sanche III the Large one († 1035) for his/her son Gonzalve I {{er}} († 1039), king de Sobrarbe and of Ribagorce . With died of this last, Sobrarbe was built-in the kingdom of Aragon.

  • Capital: Boltaña and Aínsa-Sobrarbe

  • Surface: 2.202,70 km ²
  • Population: 7.293 inhabitants (2006)
  • Density: 3,31 hab/km²

The comarques bordering ones:

Geography: in the north of comarque are the valleys of the rivers Ara, Cinca and Cinqueta, and the Vallée of Bió. In the south the Sierra S of Guara and Olsón. In the center various geographical depressions like Broto, Tax, Arcusa and Fueva. The comarque one shelters also the National park of Ordesa and of Mount-Lost.

See too

  • List of the kings de Sobrarbe

External bonds

  • District Sobrarbe

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