Baix Camp | |
Native Name Lang: | es |
Settlement Type: | Comarca |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Camp de Tarragona |
Subdivision Type3: | Province |
Subdivision Name3: | Tarragona |
Seat Type: | Capital |
Seat: | Reus |
Leader Title1: | Body |
Leader Name1: | Baix Camp Comarcal Council |
Leader Title2: | President |
Leader Name2: | Ernest Roigé (ERC) Joan Josep Garcia (Junts) |
Parts Type: | Municipalities |
Parts Style: | list |
P1: | L'Albiol, L'Aleixar, Alforja, Almoster, Arbolí, L'Argentera, Les Borges del Camp, Botarell, Cambrils, Capafonts, Castellvell del Camp, Colldejou, Duesaigües, La Febró, Maspujols, Mont-roig del Camp, Montbrió del Camp, Prades, Pratdip, Reus, Riudecanyes, Riudecols, Riudoms, La Selva del Camp, Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, Vilanova d'Escornalbou, Vilaplana, Vinyols i els Arcs |
Area Total Km2: | 697.3 |
Population Total: | 190,249 |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Demonym: | |
Blank Name Sec1: | Largest municipality |
Blank Info Sec1: | Reus |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code Type: | Dialing code |
Baix Camp (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /ˈbaʃ ˈkam/) is a comarca located in the region of Camp de Tarragona, in Catalonia.The capital is the city of Reus.
Baix Camp is located on the coast, between Tarragonès to the northeast and Baix Ebre to the south. It also borders the comarques of Priorat, Ribera d'Ebre, Conca de Barberà, Alt Camp, and Tarragonès.
Almost 150,000 people inhabit Baix Camp. The population has increased gently since the middle of the twentieth century, with population growth averaging 1.5% annually during the last three decades. Growth is not evenly distributed, however, but is strongly focused on Reus, the industrial and commercial centre of the region. Around two-thirds of the inhabitants of Baix Camp live in Reus, which from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries was the second most populous city in Catalonia, after Barcelona. Taking Catalonia as a whole, the place of Reus in the population rankings has now slipped to tenth. Within Baix Camp, the only other municipality with more than 10,000 inhabitants is Cambrils.
In the agricultural sector almonds and hazelnuts are a major crops, together representing 30% of primary sector production. Viticulture has never regained the level of dominance that it enjoyed before the European Phylloxera epidemic that peaked in the 1870s. High dependency on almonds and hazelnuts nevertheless leaves the entire regional economy vulnerable to declining world market prices that have accompanied increased globalization of the agricultural sector. Some price protection is afforded to growers by protected designation for "Hazelnuts from Reus" which actually covers not just production from Reus but also that from neighboring Alt Camp, Tarragonès, Priorat, Conca de Barberà and Terra Alta.
After the capital Reus, the major cities are Cambrils and Mont-roig del Camp; other significant towns are Riudoms and Selva del Camp.
Smaller municipalities:
Municipality | Population(2014)[1] | Areakm | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
align=right | 458 | align=right | 20.3 | ||
align=right | 891 | align=right | 26.1 | ||
align=right | 1,859 | align=right | 38.2 | ||
align=right | 1,396 | align=right | 6.0 | ||
align=right | 105 | align=right | 20.8 | ||
align=right | 146 | align=right | 10.1 | ||
align=right | 2,077 | align=right | 8.2 | ||
align=right | 1,100 | align=right | 12.0 | ||
align=right | 33,301 | align=right | 35.2 | ||
align=right | 114 | align=right | 13.4 | ||
align=right | 2,869 | align=right | 5.2 | ||
align=right | 172 | align=right | 14.5 | ||
align=right | 239 | align=right | 13.6 | ||
align=right | 40 | align=right | 16.1 | ||
align=right | 782 | align=right | 3.7 | ||
align=right | 12,148 | align=right | 63.3 | ||
align=right | 2,650 | align=right | 10.7 | ||
align=right | 626 | align=right | 32.6 | ||
align=right | 685 | align=right | 36.3 | ||
align=right | 104,962 | align=right | 52.8 | ||
align=right | 1,142 | align=right | 17.1 | ||
align=right | 1,254 | align=right | 19.5 | ||
align=right | 6,546 | align=right | 32.4 | ||
align=right | 5,598 | align=right | 35.3 | ||
align=right | 6,047 | align=right | 102.7 | ||
align=right | 540 | align=right | 17.2 | ||
align=right | 630 | align=right | 23.2 | ||
align=right | 1,872 | align=right | 10.8 | ||
• Total: 28 | align=right | 190,249 | align=right | 697.3 |