Empordà
Sign in to saveAlso known as Emporda
Empordà (; ) is a natural and historical region of Catalonia, Spain, divided since 1936 into two comarques, Alt Empordà and Baix Empordà.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Natural region
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Plana emporda montgri.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Landscape of the Montgrí Massif in the Empordà region.
- Settlement.image_map
- Empordà.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- A map of Catalonia showing the Empordà location
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Catalonia, Spain
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 40
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.name
- Empordà
via Wikipedia infobox
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- References
- External links
Empordà (; ) is a natural and historical region of Catalonia, Spain, divided since 1936 into two comarques, Alt Empordà and Baix Empordà.
The city of Figueres, an important urban and economic center of the Empordà, was designated the capital of Alt Empordà, while La Bisbal d'Empordà, following a more geographic and historical criteria, became the capital of Baix Empordà.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Empordà” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations