Vallès Oriental

Comarca in Catalonia, Spain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vallès Orientalmap

Vallès Oriental (Catalan pronunciation: [bəˈʎɛz uɾiənˈtal]) is a comarca (county) in the Barcelona region in Catalonia (Spain). Its capital is Granollers. Along with Vallès Occidental it forms the historical Vallès region.

In May 2015, Vallès Oriental lost four municipalities - Castellcir, Castellterçol, Granera, Sant Quirze Safaja - to the new comarca of Moianès.[1]

Municipalities

More information Municipality, Population (2014) ...
Municipality Population
(2014)[2]
Area
km2[2]
Aiguafreda2,4987.9
L'Ametlla del Vallès8,28314.2
Bigues i Riells8,85428.6
Caldes de Montbui17,15637.4
Campins5217.3
Canovelles15,9546.7
Cànoves i Samalús2,86329.2
Cardedeu17,69812.1
Figaró-Montmany1,09615.0
Fogars de Montclús48239.7
Les Franqueses del Vallès19,17029.1
La Garriga15,76218.8
Granollers59,93014.9
Gualba1,42923.3
La Llagosta13,4303.0
Lliçà d'Amunt14,69622.3
Lliçà de Vall6,35410.8
Llinars del Vallès9,53627.6
Martorelles4,7833.6
Mollet del Vallès51,71910.8
Montmeló8,8634.0
Montornès del Vallès16,21710.2
Montseny33226.8
Parets del Vallès18,7339.1
La Roca del Vallès10,51836.9
Sant Antoni de Vilamajor5,70813.7
Sant Celoni17,25165.2
Sant Esteve de Palautordera2,53210.6
Sant Feliu de Codines5,90015.0
Sant Fost de Campsentelles8,66613.2
Sant Pere de Vilamajor4,24834.7
Santa Eulàlia de Ronçana7,11414.2
Santa Maria de Martorelles8514.5
Santa Maria de Palautordera9,13816.9
Tagamanent32243.3
Vallgorguina2,69922.1
Vallromanes2,51910.6
Vilalba Sasserra7066.0
Vilanova del Vallès5,25015.2
• Total: 39399,781734.5
Close

Vegetation

The natural vegetation of Vallès Oriental is typically Mediterranean, with a predominance of Holm oak, cork oak, and Aleppo pine. There are some oaks (in the narrow sense of the word) at Montnegre and Montseny. The latter also features European beech and silver fir woods.

Politics and government

Comarcal council

More information Councilors in the Comarcal Council of Vallès Oriental since 1987, Election ...
Councilors in the Comarcal Council of Vallès Oriental since 1987
Key to parties
  CUP
  ICV
  BComúE (ENTESA)
  ERC
  AAEVO
  PSC
  JxCat
  Junts
  PDeCAT
  CiU
  Cs
  PP
  Vox
Election Distribution President
1987
3 2 11 17
Josep Serratusell (CiU)
1991
3 1 3 12 14
Jordi Terrades (PSC)
1995
3 3 3 10 12 2
1999
1 3 14 13 2
2003
4 5 12 10 2
Joan Castaño (PSC)
2007
3 4 14 10 2
Antonio Rísquez (PSC)
2011
4 4 12 10 3
José Orive (PSC)
2015
2 4 8 9 8 1 1
David Ricart (ERC)
2019
1 2 11 10 7 2
Emilio Cordero (PSC)
2023
1 3 8 12 8 1
Sources[15]
Close

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.