Ribagorza (, ) or Ribagorça (; ) is a ''

comarca A ''comarca'' (, , , ) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain, and some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama. The term is derived from the term ''marca'', meaning a "march, mark ...

'' (administrative subdivision) in

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 Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

, situated in the north-east of the

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- ...

. It borders the French ''département'' of the

Haute-Garonne Haute-Garonne (; , ; ''Upper Garonne'') is a department in the southwestern French region of Occitanie. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's fourth-largest. ...

to the north and

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

(the ''comarques'' of

Val d'Aran Aran (; ; ) (often known as the Aran Valley, or Val d'Aran in Aranese Occitan; in other forms of Occitan: ''Vath d'Aran'' or ''Vau d'Aran'', in Catalan: ''Vall d'Aran'', in Spanish: ''Valle de Arán'') is an autonomous administrative entity (form ...

, Alta Ribagorça,

Pallars Jussà Pallars Jussà () is a comarca (county) in Alt Pirineu, Catalonia, Spain. It was established as a ''comarca'' in 1936, out of the old county of Pallars. The name is an archaism meaning "Lower Pallars"; to the northeast and into the mountains i ...

, and Noguera) to the east. Within Aragon its neighboring ''comarcas'' are

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 ...

, Somontano de Barbastro, and La Litera. It roughly corresponds to the Aragonese part of the medieval County of Ribagorza. The administrative capital of Ribagorza is

Graus Graus () is a village in the Spanish province of Huesca, located in the Pyrenees at the confluence of rivers Esera and Isabena. It is the administrative capital of the region. It is one of the areas of Aragon in which is still preserved the Ara ...

, although the historical capital of the county was at

Benabarre Benabarre (), in Ribagorçan dialect, Ribagorçan and Aragonese dialect, Aragonese: Benavarri () is a town and municipality in the Aragonese Comarcas of Aragon, comarca of Ribagorza (comarca), Ribagorza, in the province of Huesca, Spain. Benabarr ...

. The Ribagorçan dialect is a transitional Aragonese– Catalan dialect spoken in the western part of the ''comarca''. Municipalities in the eastern part, bordering Catalonia, are part of

La Franja La Franja (; "The Strip"; ) is the area of Catalan-speaking territories of eastern Aragon bordering Catalonia, in Spain. It literally means ''"the strip"'' and can also more properly be called (Aragonese Strip), (Western Strip) or (Eastern St ...

, a geolinguistic area, where the local language is a variety of Catalan. However, Aragonese and Catalan form a

dialect continuum A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of Variety (linguistics), language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulat ...

here and the geographical limit of both languages cannot be drawn in a clear-cut manner.Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
/ref>

Municipalities

The Catalan version of the names of the towns are in brackets. * Arén (Areny de Noguera) *

(Benavarri) * Benasque (Benasc) * Beranuy * Bisaurri (Bissaürri) * Bonansa * Campo *

Capella Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga. It has the Bayer designation α Aurigae, which is Latinisation of names, Latinised to Alpha Aurigae and abbreviated Alpha Aur or α Aur. Capella is the lis ...

* Castejón de Sos (Castilló de Sos) * Castigaleu * Chía (Gia) * Estopiñán del Castillo (Estopanyà) * Foradada del Toscar *

Isábena Isábena (), in (), or in , is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 278 inhabitants. The town is situated at the foot of the rocky Morrón de ...

(Isàvena) * Lascuarre (Lasquarri) * Laspaúles (Les Paüls) * Monesma y Cajigar (Monesma i Queixigar) * Montanuy (Montanui) * Perarrúa (Perarrua) * La Puebla de Castro (La Pobla del Castre) * Puente de Montañana (El Pont de Montanyana) * Sahún (Saünc) * Santaliestra y San Quílez (Santa Llestra i Sant Quilis) * Secastilla (Secastella) * Seira * Sesué (Sessué) * Sopeira * Tolva (Tolba) * Torre la Ribera (Tor-la-ribera) * Valle de Bardají (La Vall de Bardaixí) * Valle de Lierp (La Vall de Lierp) * Viacamp y Litera (Viacamp i Lliterà) * Villanova (Vilanova d'Éssera)

References

External links

Ribagorza, Comarca's site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ribagorza Ribagorca Comarcas of Aragon Geography of the Province of Huesca La Franja Pyrenees