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Aragón
is one of the 17 autonomous states that make up Spain ever since
the Constitution of 1978, with full legislative and administrative
powers in those areas that have already been transferred from the
central government. It consists of 3 provinces or districts: Huesca,
Teruel and Zaragoza.
Located in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, it covers an
area of 47.669 square kilometres and it has a population of 1.206.603
people.
It
is an important knot of communications, as it is located in the
centre of the routes between Madrid and Barcelona, Valencia and
Bilbao, and close to the French border.
Aragon
is very diverse in its territory, mountainous in the north (mountain
range of the Pyrenees, with summits 3.000 meters high) and in
the south (Iberian mountain range), and a great valley in the
center around the course of the river Ebro (the second mightier
river of Spain).
The
climate of Aragon is generally continental: very cold in winter
and very hot in summer, with very few rains. Yet two phenomena
escape this norm: the alpine climate of the Pyrenees, where you
can find the biggest skiing domain in the south of Europe, with
5 large ski resorts, and the wind characteristic of the valley
of the Ebro, an almost constant northwest wind called Cierzo.
POPULATION
The density of population in Aragon is very low, about 25 inhabitants
per square kilometre. Most of its population gathers around the
regional capital, Zaragoza, which has more than 600.000 inhabitants.
The other two provincial capitals, Huesca (46.000 inhabitants)
and Teruel (30.000 inhabitants, are also important cities. Other
important towns are Alcañiz (13.000), Barbastro (15.400), Calatayud
(17.300), Monzón (15.000) or Ejea (16.000).
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