Alt Empordà
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Catalan comarca (county) in the vegueria (region) of Girona
Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Catalonia
- Region
- Comarques Gironines
- Province
- Girona
- Capital
- Figueres
- Body
- Alt Empordà Comarcal Council
- President
- Agustí Badosa ( Junts )
- Total
- 1,357.4 km (524.1 sq mi)
- Density
- 108.12/km (280.04/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Largest municipality
- Figueres
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Encyclopedic overview
Coastal cliffs, Cervera de la Marenda, near the French border
Alt Empordà ( Catalan: [ˈal əmpuɾˈða]; Spanish: Alto Ampurdán; "Upper Empordà") is a comarca (county) located in the Girona region, in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of two comarques into which Empordà was divided by the comarca division of Catalonia in 1936, the other one being Baix Empordà. The capital is the municipality of Figueres.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alt Empordà” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.