- Terra Alta
Spanish comarca
comarca_name = Terra Alta
location_
province = Tarragona
capital =Gandesa
largest_city =Gandesa
demonym =
population = 12,196 (2001)
area = 740.0
pop_density = 16.5
municipalities = Arnes|Batea|Bot|Caseres |Corbera d'Ebre |La Fatarella |Gandesa |Horta de Sant Joan |El Pinell de Brai |La Pobla de Massaluca |Prat de Comte |Vilalba dels Arcs Terra Alta is a sparsely populated inland comarca (county) in
Catalonia ,Spain . Its capital isGandesa . It is also known as Castellania, a name dating back to its medieval status as a fiefdom held by the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem under theCrown of Aragon .Municipalities
Population figures are for
2002 .* Arnes - pop. 501
* Batea - pop. 2,063
* Bot - pop. 793
*Caseres - pop. 323
*Corbera d'Ebre - pop. 1,040
*La Fatarella - pop. 1,184
*Gandesa - pop. 2,805
*Horta de Sant Joan - pop. 1,189
*El Pinell de Brai - pop. 1,075
*La Pobla de Massaluca - pop. 426
*Prat de Comte - pop. 187
*Vilalba dels Arcs - pop. 736External links
* [http://www.terra-alta.altanet.org/ Official comarcal web site (in Catalan)]
* [http://www.idescat.es/servlet/BasicTerr?TC=3&V0=2&V1=37&PDF=FALSE&VOK=Confirmar IDESCAT: statistical information about Terra Alta (in Catalan)]
* [http://www.municat.net:8000/omunicat/owa/mun_p01.dad_ens?via=0&cod=8103790004&err=0 information about Terra Alta from the Generalitat de Catalunya (in Catalan)]
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