Tremp Explained

Tremp
Settlement Type:Municipality
Pushpin Map:Spain Province of Lleida#Spain Catalonia#Spain
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in the Province of Lleida##Location in Catalonia##Location in Spain
Coordinates:42.1667°N 54°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Community
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Lleida
Subdivision Type3:Comarca
Subdivision Name3:Pallars Jussà
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Sílvia Romero i Galera (2023-)[1]
Area Footnotes:[2]
Area Total Km2:302.8
Elevation M:468
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Demonym:Trempolí, trempolina
Postal Code:25620
Blank Name:Climate

Tremp (pronounced as /ca/) is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain, the capital of the comarca of the Pallars Jussà. It is the largest municipality in Catalonia in terms of area (303.97km2),[3] accounting for nearly a quarter of the total area of the comarca.

The municipality is a geographical oddity and consists of five separate territorial entities within the comarca (district) of Pallars Jussa (see image). The town of Tremp (population 5.961 as of 2023) is the second smallest of these and is situated in the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa river below Talarn and the Talarn Dam. The largest portion of the municipal territory lies to the west of the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa and stretches as far as the Noguera Ribagorçana river. A third portion is an exclave of the comarca within the municipality of el Pont de Suert in the Alta Ribagorça. In the east the villages of Palau de Noguera, Suterranya and Vilamitjana form the fourth entity, while the fifth and smallest portion (of only 1,59 km2) is formed by the village of Puigcercós, south of Tremp.

The town is served by the C-13 road which runs along the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa.

Subdivisions

The municipality of Tremp includes twenty-eight outlying settlements: populations are given as of 2005 and 2023:

!Settlements!2005!2023
Acadèmia General Bàsica de Subofficials26208
1547
33
Casterner de les Olles11
Castissent, on the left bank of the Noguera Ribagorçana river2015
Claramunt11
Claret27
Eroles1113
Escarlà23
Espills58
Espluga Freda1
Espluga de Serra4536
Fígols de Tremp28
Gurp818
Els Masos de Tamúrcia12
Palau de Noguera8553
El Pont d'Orrit15
Puigcercós5235
Puigverd11
Sant Adrià43
Santa Engràcia, with sulfurous springs2416
Sapeira211
Suterranya6958
56
Tercui, on a hill above the Noguera Ribagorçana21
Torogó25
La Torre de Tamúrcia 17
Vilamitjana, on the road to Artesa de Segre207152

Places of interest

-Les Serretes. It is a place in Vilamitjana municipality known by the finding of an important paleontological site. In this site there have found dinosaur remains that belongs to the Second biggest hadrosaur found in Spain, and the biggest of Catalonia. Also there have been found two carnívor dinosaur tooth that belongs to two new dinosaur species morphotypes.[4] [5]

Picture of the dentary from les Serretes. Nowadays exposed on the Museum of Isona.

See also

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pallars Digital. Generalitat of Catalonia. 2024-01-29.
  2. Web site: El municipi en xifres: Tremp. Statistical Institute of Catalonia. 2015-11-23.
  3. The municipality of Tortosa is historically larger than Tremp, but was subdivided into five separate municipalities between 1977 and 1983.
  4. 2014, Fuentes-Buxó, R. & Dalla Vecchia, F.M. 2014. Les Serretes, a new Late Maastrichtian dinosaur site in the eastern Tremp Syncline (Southern Pyrenees, Spain). In: Paleontologia i Evolució. Reconstructing the Terrestrial end-cretaceous paleoenvironments in Europe. pp 70.https://www.academia.edu/10410968/Les_Serretes_a_new_Late_Maastrichtian_dinosaur_site_in_the_eastern_Tremp_Syncline_Southern_Pyrenees_Spain_
  5. Fuentes Buxó, R. 2012. Anàlisi de restes paleontològiques del Maastrichtià superior (Cretaci superior) procedents d’un nou jaciment situat en Les Serretes (Vilamitjana, Conca de Tremp, Espanya). Treball de fi de Master de Paleontologia (UAB-UB-ICP). 129 pp.https://www.academia.edu/10944379/An%C3%A0lisi_de_restes_paleontol%C3%B2giques_del_Maastrichti%C3%A0_superior_Cretaci_superior_procedents_d_un_nou_jaciment_situat_en_Les_Serretes_Vilamitjana_Conca_de_Tremp_Espanya_