Veguerie of Alt Pirineu i Aran

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   Àmbit metropolità

   Alt Pirineu i Aran

   Camp de Tarragona

   Comarques Centrals

   Comarques Gironines

   Ponent

   Terres de l'Ebre

] Veguerie of Alt Pirineu i Aran [ [http://www.vegueries.com/pirineu/indexENG.htm Vegueries] ca es en fr] (in catalan Vegueria de l'Alt Pirineu i Aran) is one of the seven territories define by the Regional Plan of Catalonia. It is located in the Catalan High Pyrenees (in catalan "Alt Pirineu"). It is formed for six "comarques": Alt Urgell, Alta Ribagorça, Baixa Cerdanya, Pallars Jussà, Pallars Sobirà and Val d'Aran. Val d'Aran is also in the High Pyrenees, but that "comarca" has a special treatment because has an autonomus government (Conselh Generau d'Aran).

Veguerie of Alt Pirineu i Aran is the biggest one (18% of Catalonia's total surface area) and with less population (69,335 inhabitants). With a density of 12.2 inhabitants/km².

Veguerie

The Veguerie (Vegueria in Catalan) was an important feudal land division in the Principality of Catalonia, Kingdom of Sardinia, and Duchy of Athens during the Middle Ages and into the Modern Era until the Nueva Planta decrees of 1716. It was the primary division of a county in Catalonia and the basic territorial unit of government in Sardinia and Athens after those countries became part of the Crown of Aragon. The office of a veguer was called a vigeriate (Latin: "vigeriatus").

In 1936, Catalonia was reconstituted into "comarques" (until the abolition of the 1939 and reconstituited again on 1987). Each "comarca" was grouped with two to four others into a veguerie, of which there were nine, with their capitals at Barcelona, Girona, Tremp, Vic, Manresa, Lleida, Reus, Tarragona, and Tortosa.

Under the 2006 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, the four provinces which make up Catalonia are due to be replaced by seven vegueries, which will also take over many of the functions of the "comarques". As of February 2007, the final boundaries of the new vegueries had yet to be approved, but we know that we'll be at least that: Àmbit metropolità, Camp de Tarragona, Comarques Centrals, Ponent or Lleida, Comarques Gironines, Alt Pirineu i Aran, Terres de l'Ebre.

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