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, la Garriga,

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Osona Osona () is a comarca situated in Catalonia, Northeast Spain. Its capital is Vic. Its population in 2001 was 129,543. Osona covers roughly the same area as the historic Catalan county of Osona. The name Osona comes from ''Ausetans'', a group of ...

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Vallès Oriental Vallès Oriental () is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. Its capital is Granollers. Along with Vallès Occidental it forms the grand comarca of Vallès. In May 2015, Vallès Oriental lost four municipalities - Castellcir, Castellterç ...

, mouth_coordinates = {{coord, 41, 32, 46.82, N, 2, 15, 3.38, E, display=inline,title , mouth_elevation = {{convert, 236, ft, abbr=on , progression = , river_system = , basin_size = {{convert, 86.87, sqmi, abbr=on , tributaries_left = , tributaries_right = , custom_label = , custom_data = , extra = The Congost is a river basin of the Besòs river and owes its name to the narrow

gorge A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency to c ...

through which it passes, largely through the Catalan pre-coastal mountain range in Spain.

Sources

The Congost River is born of the waters of the western cliffs of the

, at the foot of Sant Cugat Gavadons in land consisting of

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...

and marl.

Middle and mouth

The river is in the gap that separates the massif of Montseny from the Cliffs of Bertí separating these two mountainous units north to south. Its action for centuries has achieved a major gorge that begins at Gorg Negre, near

, and continues to Aiguafreda and Figueró to open on the plain of Vallès when it comes to la Garriga. After that it crosses the plains of Vallès,

through, and finally forms Besòs at its confluence with the Mogent, at the height of

. No major tributaries, but many of them are also gorges.

References

Rivers of Spain Rivers of Catalonia