Tremp () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
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 ...
, Spain, the capital of the
''comarca'' of the
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 ...
. It is the largest municipality in Catalonia in terms of area (), 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
Talarn () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Pallars Jussà in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated in the centre of the Tremp basin, on the Noguera Pallaresa river below the Sant Antoni reservoir. It is the site of a hydroelectric power ...
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
An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. An enclave can be an independent territory or part of a larger one. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is s ...
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.
Demography
It has a population of .
Subdivisions
The municipality of Tremp includes twenty-eight outlying settlements:
population
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s are given as of 2005 and 2023:
Places of interest
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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
Hadrosaurids (), also hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae. This group is known as the duck-billed dinosaurs for the flat duck-bill appearance of the bones in their snouts. The ornithopod fami ...
found in Spain, and the biggest of Catalonia. Also there have been found two carnívor
dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic Geological period, period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the #Evolutio ...
tooth that belongs to two new dinosaur species morphotypes.
[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 p]
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Picture of the Mandible, dentary from les Serretes. Nowadays exposed on the Museum of Isona.
See also
* Talarn Dam
References
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External links
Official website
Government data pages
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Municipalities in Pallars Jussà
Populated places in Pallars Jussà