Organyà

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Organyà

Total population

840

Elevation558 m

Land area12.5 km²

Coordinates42.21°, 1.33°

Demographic figures from INE (Spain). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Organyà is a municipality in the comarca of the Alt Urgell in Catalonia. It is situated on the right bank of the Segre river below the Trespons gorge, and is served by the C-14 road between Ponts and La Seu d'Urgell. There is a monument to the Homilies d'Organyà, a 12th or 13th century collection of sermons which is the oldest literary text in the Catalan language to survive in its entirety, discovered in the town in 1904. It has a population of 853 .

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Càstor Pérez Diz

Spanish musician

Francesc Betriu

Spanish film director

N

Nemesi Marqués Oste

representative to Andorra of the Bishop of Urgell

P

Pedro Martret Moles

R

Romà Bordell i Rosell

Spanish chess player (1928-2008)

Joan Graell i Piqué

Catalan poet and writer

C

Cebrià Baraut i Obiols

Spanish historian and writer (1917-2003)

J

Josep Grau i Colell

Spanish writer (1937-1995)

J

Josep Rossell i Ramonet

J

Joan Busquets i Grau

Spanish politician

Salvador Gené i Torrents

Spanish missionary (1880-1956)

R

Ramir Auge i Montanya

R

Ramon de Cabó

M

Marcel Fité Argerich

poet, linguist and pedagogist

J

Joan Oliva i Grau

C

Celestí Vilà Betriu

Catalan politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

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