Plan is a municipality located in the

Sobrarbe Sobrarbe is a comarca of Aragon, Spain. It is located in the north of Huesca province, making up part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Many of its people speak the Aragonese language locally known as ''fabla''. Sobrarbe is a mountainous ...

comarca,

province of Huesca Huesca (; ), officially Huesca/Uesca, is a province of northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon. The capital is Huesca. Positioned just south of the central Pyrenees, Huesca borders France and the French departments of Haute-Garonne, Pyrénées- ...

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, ...

, Spain. According to the 2010

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

the municipality has a population of 336 inhabitants, and is the main populated center in the Gistau Valley. Its postal code is 22367. The

Ibón de Plan Ibón de Plan or Basa de la Mora is a lake in the Province of Huesca, northeastern Spain. It is not connected to any specific river, since the water that fills it originates in the snow and the ice accumulated in such altitudes. It lies at an elev ...

or ''Basa de la Mora'' lake is located within its municipal term and is said to be enchanted according to locals. The village is one of the last places where Chistabino, the local dialect of Aragonese can be heard.

The "caravan of women"

In 1985, Plan made Spanish newsLos hijos de la caravana, sin plan
'' El Mundo'', 16 January 2005. since local bachelors organized a "

caravan of women Caravan or caravans may refer to: Transport and travel *Campervan, a type of vehicle also known as a motor caravan *Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together **Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop *Caravan (trail ...

" after watching the American 1951 Western ''

Westward the Women ''Westward the Women'' is a 1951 American western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel and John McIntire. Plot In 1851, the working men of Whitman's Valley in California are lonely. Local proprietor Ro ...

''. At the time, there were over forty single men and just one single woman. Most of the local women had emigrated. An advertisement in the press calling for "women between 20 and 40 with marriage intentions for Pyrenees village" resulted in 33 marriages, revitalizing Plan. Since then, other villages have organized similar "caravans" caravanademujeres.es
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Bassa de la Mora - Ibon de PlanIbon Basa de la Mora - Ibon de PlanCentre Excursionista de Catalunya Bulletin
Municipalities in the Province of Huesca {{huesca-geo-stub

The "caravan of women"

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