Pla d'Urgell

The comarca of Pla d' Urgell is located in the province of Lleida of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, (Spain). The community association has an area of ​​305.1 km ² and 37,044 inhabitants (2009 ). The community association was created in 1988 by the merger of communities that formerly belonged to the Comarcas les Garrigues, Noguera, Segrià and Urgell.

Location

The community association is located in the western part of Catalonia, some 20 km east of the provincial capital, Lleida. It is bordered on the north by the comarca of Noguera, in the east of Urgell, in the south of Garrigues and to the west by Segrià. Together with the Comarcas Garrigues, Noguera, Segarra and Urgell Segrià forms the region 's territory Ponent.

The fertile plain of Urgell ( cat. Plana d' Urgell ) is part of zentralkatalanischen sink. The landscape with its rolling hills is criss-crossed by a network of irrigation canals. The highest elevation of 348 m is the mountain lo Tossal in the belonging to the congregation Barbens exclave in the field of Urgell comarca. The river Corb, tributary of the Segre, the Comarca flows from southeast to northwest.

Ivars - Vila- sana

The formerly important wetland area in the north east of the comarca was drained in 1951. Only in 2005, the area was re-naturalized, associated with the passage of Urgell and flooded. Today the lake is 2200 m long, 800 m wide, 2 m deep and has an area 126 ha The Ivars - Vila- sana has once again become the most important wetland area in the interior part of Catalonia. More than 200 species of birds, including migratory birds and winter visitors were counted in this biotope.

Channel of Urgell

Even the Arabs built the first irrigation systems in the plane of Urgell.

The Canal Principal ( dt: main channel ) was built in the years 1861 to 1865 and has a total length of 144.2 Km component of the project was a 5 km long underground channel. The channel is fed by the rivers Segre and Corb.

1929 to 1932 the canal network around the 76.6 km long Canal auxiliary ( dt: Auxiliary channel) has been extended. The channel gets its water from the reservoir of Sant Llorenç de Montgai.

The formerly arid region became an important production area of agricultural products through the construction of the irrigation system. The canals irrigate an area of ​​70 242 ha

Economy

The most important economic sector is agriculture and livestock. Their products are used by the food industry based in the region.

Communities

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