Valley of Aragon
The valley of Aragon is a valley of the the Aragonese Pyrenees of the Comarque of the Jacetania, located in the Western northern part of the Province of Huesca (Spain), frontier with the Vallée of Winder (France).
It is divided into three historical geographical areas: in the south, the Campo de Jaca , the broadest zone, which is connected to the Val Ancha; in the median part of the valley is located Bardaruex (or valley of Aruej) formed of the communes of Villanúa and Castiello de Jaca and finally with north, the valley of Canfranc , narrower and encaissée.
The valley holds its name of the Aragon which traverses it north in the south and which is born almost with the border with France, in the ibones of Truchas and Escalar with Astún. It includes the communes of:
The valley communicates with France by three passages: the Collar of Somport to 1.640 meters of altitude, the Tunnel of Somport, which measures more than 8 km and is located at nearly 1.200 meters of altitude, and the old railway way of Pau in Canfranc, inaugurated on July 18th, 1928 and definitively closed in 1970.
It belongs to the Via Tolosane on the way of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle, whose jewel is the cathedral of Jaca, without forgetting the many churches and other hermitages romans.
At highest of the valley the ski stations of Candanchú and Astún are, which makes tourism principal and almost single source of revenue of the zone. It culminates with the peak Collarada with 2.886 meters of altitude in Villanúa.
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