Osona
Comarca
Flag of Osona
Flag
Coat of arms of Osona
Coat of arms
Country Spain
Autonomous community Catalonia
Province Barcelona,
 Girona
RegionCentral Catalonia
CapitalVic
Municipalities
List
Government
 • BodyOsona Comarcal Council
 • PresidentGerard Sancho (Junts)
Area
 • Total1,245.1 km2 (480.7 sq mi)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total154,559
 • Density120/km2 (320/sq mi)
 adjusted following Moianès creation
Demonym(s)osonenc (m.)
osonenca (f.)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Largest municipalityVic
Websitewww.ccosona.cat
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Osona (Catalan pronunciation: [uˈzonə]) is a comarca situated in the central region of Catalonia, Spain. Its capital is Vic. Its population in 2001 was 129,543. Osona covers roughly the same area as the historic Catalan county of Osona. The name Osona comes from Ausetans, a group of Iberian people who had their capital in Ausa (today Vic); the Romans called the area Ausone or Ausona. While most of the comarca is within the province of Barcelona, the municipalities of Espinelves, Vidrà and Viladrau form part of the province of Girona.

The most important town of Osona is Vic, its capital and an important and ancient urban center in this natural region that lies in the midst of the Plain of Vic. Other significant towns in the plain are Manlleu and Tona.

This natural depression in the center of the region was carved by river Ter and its tributaries and makes up a big part of Osona's land. It is surrounded by mountains: The Sub-Pyrenees, with Bellmunt mountain towering in the north, the Lluçanès (Pre-Pyrenees) to the north-west and Moianès high plateau in the West, the Montseny in the southeast and the Guilleries, located at the apex of the Catalan Transversal Range and the Pre-Coastal Range, in the east.

Long famous for its local sausages (especially fuet) and other pork derivatives, in recent years the area has become somewhat infamous for the pollution of its many waterways due to the factory farming of pigs and Dairy cattle. There are more pigs than people living in Osona.

In the comarcal revision of 1990, Sant Quirze de Besora became part of Osona; previously it formed part of the Ripollès. In May 2015, Osona lost the municipality of Collsuspina to the new comarca of Moianès.[1]

Municipalities

Municipality Population
(2014)[2]		 Area
km2[2]
Alpens30013.8
Balenyà3,72417.4
El Brull26341.0
Calldetenes2,4295.8
Centelles7,33315.2
Espinelves19617.4
L'Esquirol2,18861.8
Folgueroles2,25910.5
Gurb2,54551.6
Lluçà25753.0
Malla26611.0
Manlleu20,27917.2
Les Masies de Roda73716.4
Les Masies de Voltregà3,18622.4
Montesquiu8954.9
Muntanyola59540.3
Olost1,18629.4
Orís30327.2
Oristà55768.5
Perafita40719.6
Prats de Lluçanès2,62413.8
Roda de Ter6,1242.2
Rupit i Pruit30047.8
Sant Agustí de Lluçanès9113.2
Sant Bartomeu del Grau87534.4
Sant Boi de Lluçanès55619.5
Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà3,4460.9
Sant Julià de Vilatorta3,12315.9
Sant Martí d'Albars10614.7
Sant Martí de Centelles1,09325.6
Sant Pere de Torelló2,43655.1
Sant Quirze de Besora2,1488.1
Sant Sadurní d'Osormort8630.6
Sant Vicenç de Torelló1,9756.6
Santa Cecília de Voltregà1738.6
Santa Eugènia de Berga2,2337.0
Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer1,25913.8
Santa Maria de Besora16224.7
Seva3,48830.4
Sobremunt8313.8
Sora17531.7
Taradell6,21926.5
Tavèrnoles31718.8
Tavertet12532.5
Tona8,01216.5
Torelló13,94913.5
Vic41,95630.6
Vidrà16934.4
Viladrau1,03750.7
Vilanova de Sau31458.8
• Total: 50154,5591,245.1

See also

References

  1. ↑ "El Parlament aprova la llei de creació del Moianès amb els vots en contra de Ciutadans i l'abstenció del PP" (in Catalan). La Vanguardia. 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
  2. 1 2 "El municipi en xifres". Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya. Retrieved 2015-05-25.


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