La Litera Explained

La Litera/La Llitera
Native Name Lang:es
Settlement Type:Comarca
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Spain
Subdivision Type1:Autonomous community
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Huesca
Seat Type:Capital
Seat:Binéfar/Binèfar
Parts Type:Municipalities
Parts Style:list
Area Total Km2:733.9
Population Total:18847
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:Largest municipality
Timezone1:CET
Utc Offset1:+1
Timezone1 Dst:CEST
Utc Offset1 Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code Type:Dialing code

La Litera (pronounced as /es/) or La Llitera (in Catalan; Valencian la ʎiˈteɾa/)[1] (Aragonese: A Litera) is an Aragonese comarca in the south-east of the province of Huesca.

Its cultural capital is Tamarite de Litera, its administrative capital is Binefar and it borders the comarques of Ribagorza, Somontano de Barbastro, Cinca Medio, Bajo Cinca in Aragon and Noguera and Segrià in Catalonia.

Its west half side belongs to the Catalan-speaking strip in eastern Aragon known as La Franja.

Municipal terms

List of villages on the comarca. The Catalan version of the names of the towns are in brackets:[2]

References

  1. http://benasque.aragob.es:443/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VEROBJ&MLKOB=178898063028 Official name as appears in the establishing law of the comarca (BOA 25/2002 12th november)
  2. Web site: Decreto Legislativo 2/2006, de 27 de diciembre, del Gobierno de Aragón, por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de la Ley de Delimitación Comarcal de Aragón. . Boletín Oficial de Aragón . 2007-12-27 . 2008-07-23 . es . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090831220751/http://www.boa.aragon.es/cgi-bin/BoaAA/BRSCGI?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=BOLE&PIECE=BOLE&DOCR=10&SEC=BUSQUEDA_FECHA&RNG=200&SEPARADOR=&&PUBL=20061230 . 2009-08-31 .

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