Comarcas of Spain

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Comarca

Category	Comarca
Location	Spain
Found in	Province
Government	Comarcal council
Subdivisions	Municipality

In Spain traditionally and historically, some autonomous communities are also divided into comarcas (Spanish: [koˈmarkas], sing. comarca).^{[note 1]} Some comarcas (e.g. comarques of Catalonia) have a clearly defined status, are regulated by law and even their comarcal councils have some power.

In some other cases (e.g. La Carballeda) their legal status is not very formal for they correspond to natural areas, like valleys, river basins and mountainous areas, or even to historical regions overlapping different provinces and ancient kingdoms (e.g. Ilercavonia). In such comarcas or natural regions municipalities have resorted to organizing themselves in mancomunidad (commonwealth), like the Taula del Sénia, the only legal formula that has allowed those comarcas to manage their public municipal resources meaningfully.

There is even a comarca, the Cerdanya that is divided between two states, the southwestern half being counted as a comarca of Spain, while the northeastern half is part of France.

In English, a comarca is equivalent to a district, county, area or zone.

Contents

1 List of comarcas of Spain by autonomous communities
2 See also
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] List of comarcas of Spain by autonomous communities

[edit] Comarcas of Andalusia

Comarcas of Andalusia

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Almería

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Cádiz

Comarcas of Cádiz

Bahía de Cádiz
Bajo Guadalquivir, also called Costa Noroeste
Campo de Gibraltar
La Janda
Campiña de Jerez, also called Marco de Jerez
Sierra de Cádiz

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Córdoba

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Granada

Comarcas of Granada

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Huelva

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Jaén

Comarcas de Jaén

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Málaga

Antequera
Axarquía
Costa del Sol Occidental (Western Costa del Sol)
Málaga
Serranía de Ronda
Valle del Guadalhorce

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Sevilla

[edit] Comarcas of Aragon

Comarcas of Aragon

Main article: Comarcas of Aragon

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Huesca/Uesca

Alto Gállego
Bajo Cinca, also called Baix Cinca
Cinca Medio
Hoya de Huesca, also called Plana de Uesca
Jacetania
La Litera, also called La Llitera
Monegros
Ribagorza
Sobrarbe
Somontano de Barbastro

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Teruel

Bajo Martín
Jiloca
Cuencas Mineras
Andorra-Sierra de Arcos
Bajo Aragón
Comunidad de Teruel
Maestrazgo
Sierra de Albarracín Comarca, named after the Sierra de Albarracín mountain range
Gúdar-Javalambre
Matarraña, also called Matarranya

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Zaragoza

[edit] Comarcas of Asturias

Main article: Comarcas of Asturias

Comarcas of Asturias

[edit] Comarques of the Balearic Islands

[edit] Mallorca

[edit] Menorca

Menorca

[edit] Pitiüses

[edit] Comarcas of Basque Country

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Álava-Araba

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Biscay

Comarcas of Biscay

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Gipuzkoa

Main article: List of regions in Gipuzkoa

[edit] Comarcas of Canary Islands

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Las Palmas

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Tenerife

[edit] Comarcas of Cantabria

Comarcas of Cantabria.

[edit] Comarques of Catalonia

Comarques of Catalonia

Main article: Comarques of Catalonia

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Barcelona

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Girona

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Lleida

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Tarragona

[edit] Comarcas of Castile-La Mancha

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Albacete

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Ciudad Real

- Campo de Montiel (Capital: Villanueva de los Infantes).

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Cuenca

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Guadalajara

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Toledo

[edit] Comarcas of Castile and León

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Ávila

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Burgos

[edit] Comarcas of the province of León

Map of Comarcas de León.

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Palencia

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Salamanca

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Segovia

An official classification establishes three comarcas:

or sometimes four:

Tierra de Pinares (shares with the province of Valladolid).
Segovia.
Sepúlveda.
Tierra de Ayllón.

However, historic approaches (before the national classification into provinces) establish six comarcas:

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Soria

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Valladolid

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Zamora

[edit] Comarcas of Extremadura

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Badajoz

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Cáceres

[edit] Comarcas of Galicia

[edit] Comarcas of the province of A Coruña

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Lugo

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Ourense

[edit] Comarcas of the province of Pontevedra

[edit] Comarcas of La Rioja

Rioja Alta
Rioja Baja
Tierra de Cameros
- Camero Nuevo (from Iregua river to West)
- Camero Viejo (from Leza river to East)

[edit] Comarcas of Madrid

[edit] Comarcas of Murcia

Main article: Comarcas of Murcia

Comarcas de Murcia

Altiplano
Alto Guadalentín
Bajo Guadalentín
Campo de Cartagena / Comarca de Cartagena
Huerta de Murcia
Región del Mar Menor
Región del Noroeste / Comarca del Noroeste
Región del Río Mula / Cuenca del Río Mula
Región Oriental
Valle de Ricote
Vega Alta / Comarca de la Vega Alta del Segura
Vega Media / Comarca de la Vega Media del Segura

[edit] Comarcas of Navarre

Main article: Comarcas of Navarre

Zonificación 2000

[edit] Comarques of the Valencian Community

Main article: Comarques of the Valencian Community

Comarcas of the Comunitat Valenciana

[edit] Comarques of the province of Alicante

[edit] Comarques of the province of Castellón

[edit] Comarques of the province of Valencia

Camp de Túria
Camp de Morvedre
Canal de Navarrés
Costera
Hoya de Buñol
Horta de València, which is subdivided into:
Requena-Utiel
Rincón de Ademuz
Ribera Alta
Ribera Baixa
Safor
Serranos
Vall d'Albaida
Valle de Cofrentes-Ayora

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

^ In other languages of Spain:
- Catalan/Valencian comarques (IPA: [kuˈmarkəs] or [koˈmaɾkes]), sing comarca.
- Galician comarcas (IPA: [koˈmaɾkas]), sing. comarca.
- Basque eskualdean (IPA: [es̺kualdean], sing. eskualde.

[edit] External links

Conocer España, detailed list of the Spanish comarcas with links (in Spanish).

v d e Comarcas of Spain

By Autonomous Community	Andalusia Aragon Asturias Balearic Islands Canary Islands Cantabria Castile-La Mancha Castile and León Catalonia Extremadura Galicia Community of Madrid Region of Murcia Navarre Basque Country La Rioja Valencian Community

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