Tremp () is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain, the capital of the comarca of the Pallars Jussà. It is the largest municipality in Catalonia in terms of area (),The municipality of Tortosa is historically larger than Tremp, but was subdivided into five separate municipalities between 1977 and 1983. accounting for nearly a quarter of the total area of the comarca.
The municipality is a geographical oddity and consists of five separate territorial entities within the comarca (district) of Pallars Jussa (see image). The town of Tremp (population 5.961 as of 2023) is the second smallest of these and is situated in the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa river below Talarn and the Talarn Dam. The largest portion of the municipal territory lies to the west of the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa and stretches as far as the Noguera Ribagorçana river. A third portion is an exclave of the comarca within the municipality of el Pont de Suert in the Alta Ribagorça. In the east the villages of Palau de Noguera, Suterranya and Vilamitjana form the fourth entity, while the fifth and smallest portion (of only 1,59 km2) is formed by the village of Puigcercós, south of Tremp.
The town is served by the C-13 road which runs along the valley of the Noguera Pallaresa.
Demography It has a population of . 1900 1930 1950 1970 1986 2007 2012 2018 2022 2023 4896 6454 6396 5785 5727 6022 6515 5824 5847 5991
Subdivisions The municipality of Tremp includes twenty-eight outlying settlements: populations are given as of 2005 and 2023: +Settlements20052023Acadèmia General Bàsica de Subofficials26208Aulàs 1547El Castellet 33Casterner de les Olles11Castissent, on the left bank of the Noguera Ribagorçana river2015Claramunt11Claret27Eroles1113Escarlà23Espills58Espluga Freda1Espluga de Serra4536Fígols de Tremp28Gurp818Els Masos de Tamúrcia12Palau de Noguera8553El Pont d'Orrit15Puigcercós5235Puigverd11Sant Adrià43Santa Engràcia, with sulfurous springs2416Sapeira211Suterranya6958Tendrui 56Tercui, on a hill above the Noguera Ribagorçana21Torogó25La Torre de Tamúrcia 17Vilamitjana, on the road to Artesa de Segre207152
Places of interest -Les Serretes. It is a place in Vilamitjana municipality known by the finding of an important paleontological site. In this site there have found dinosaur remains that belongs to the Second biggest hadrosaur found in Spain, and the biggest of Catalonia. Also there have been found two carnívor dinosaur tooth that belongs to two new dinosaur species morphotypes.2014, Fuentes-Buxó, R. & Dalla Vecchia, F.M. 2014. Les Serretes, a new Late Maastrichtian dinosaur site in the eastern Tremp Syncline (Southern Pyrenees, Spain). In: Paleontologia i Evolució. Reconstructing the Terrestrial end-cretaceous paleoenvironments in Europe. pp 70.Fuentes Buxó, R. 2012. Anàlisi de restes paleontològiques del Maastrichtià superior (Cretaci superior) procedents d’un nou jaciment situat en Les Serretes (Vilamitjana, Conca de Tremp, Espanya). Treball de fi de Master de Paleontologia (UAB-UB-ICP). 129 pp.
Picture of the dentary from les Serretes. Nowadays exposed on the Museum of Isona.
Notable people
Francisco Tausí y Oriol
See also Talarn Dam
References
External links
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