Bajo Cinca/Baix Cinca

Bajo Cinca, Baix Cinca Catalan, is a Comarca (administrative unit ) of the Aragon Autonomous Community in Spain. It lies in the east of Aragon, each part in the provinces of Huesca and Zaragoza. Covering an area of 1,420 km ² it has 22,254 inhabitants. The capital is Fraga, the largest of the eleven associated municipalities ( municipios ). The name of the Comarca stems from the fact that it lies on the lower reaches of the river Cinca, which flows at Mequinenza in the Segre, a tributary of the Ebro.

Bajo Cinca is bordered to the west by the Comarca Monegros, on the north by Cinca Medio and La Litera, on the east by the province of Lleida ( Comarca Segrià ) and in the south of Bajo Aragón - Caspe. Besides Fraga include the communities Ballobar, Bellver de Cinca, Candasnos, Chalamera, Mequinenza, Ontiñena, Osso de Cinca, Torrente de Cinca, Velilla de Cinca and Zaidín the Comarca.

The geography of the comarca is characterized by the contrast between the fertile banks of the Ebro documents, Cinca and Segre and the remaining dry soils. In recent years, the economy has begun irrigation in the dry layers of what the landscape has changed. The serreta Negra is of high ecological importance which it houses several endemic plant species.

In the cultural heritage of the Comarca of San Pedro ( St Peter's ) Church and Villa Fortunatus are worth mentioning in particular in Fraga. In the latter case it is the remains of a Roman villa. The Romanesque hermitages of Santa María de Chalamera and San Valero de Velilla and the Romanesque churches in Ballobar and Ontiñena and the castle of Mequinenza are worth mentioning.

Among the sons of the comarca include the writer Ramón J. Sender and Jesús Moncada.

The Comarca is bilingual. The population of the communities Fraga, Mequinenza, Torrente de Cinca, Velilla de Cinca and Zaidín majority speaks Catalan and belong to Franja de Aragón, the katalanischsprechenden areas of Aragon, which form the western boundary of the Catalan language area. The inhabitants of Ballobar, Bellver de Cinca, Candasnos, Chalamera, Ontiñena and Osso de Cinca, however, have mostly Spanish ( castellano ) as their mother tongue.