Bergosa is an unpopulated

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belonging to the municipality of

Jaca Jaca (; in Aragonese language, Aragonese: ''Chaca'' or ''Xaca'') is a city of northeastern Spain in the province of Huesca (province), Huesca, located near the Pyrenees and the border with France. Jaca is an ancient fort on the Aragón (river), ...

, in the region of Jacetania, province of

Huesca Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish Huesca (province), ...

Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and ; ) is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces of Spain, ...

. It is part of the Garcipollera.

Toponymy

According to

Agustín Ubieto Agustín is a Spanish given name and sometimes a surname. It is related to Augustín. People with the name include: Given name * Agustín Adorni (born 1990), Argentine footballer * Agustín Allione (born 1994), Argentine footballer * Ag ...

, the first mention of the place dates from 948 or 962, in the work of his brother, Antonio Ubieto, ''Cartulario de San Juan de la Peña II'', in ''Textos Medievales'', 6 (Valencia, 1963) and documents the variations ''Bergossa, Bergosi, Bergasa, Uergosa, Uergossa'' and ''Bergosa''.

Geography

In 1966, the place was expropriated, as in the rest of the Garcipollera, in order to carry out an important reforestation of

conifer Conifers () are a group of conifer cone, cone-bearing Spermatophyte, seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the phylum, division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a sin ...

s on its slopes as a measure to retain the erosion caused by the construction of the

Yesa Reservoir The Yesa Reservoir is located in the Pyrenees, and is formed with the damming of the Aragon River, in the Navarre town of Yesa (Spain), although the largest area of the reservoir is located in the province of Zaragoza, extending from east to west ...

Demographics

Locality

Demographic data on the town of Bergosa since 1900: * It has not been included in the Nomenclator since 1970. * Data refer to ''de jure'' population.

Former municipality

Demographic data of the municipality of Bergosa since 1842:Alterations of the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842. INE - National Institute of Statistics of Spain.
(in Spanish) * In the 1842 census it was called ''Bergosa y Mesón del Señor''. * Between the 1857 and the previous census, this municipality disappeared because it was integrated into the municipality of Bescós de Garcipollera. * Data refer to the population by right, except in the 1857 and 1860 Censuses, which refer to the ''de facto'' population.

Local holidays

* November 29, ''San Saturnino''.

Gallery

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References

Huesca Aragon Populated places in Spain {{huesca-geo-stub