> > I¹ve attached two maps. I assume that this is tertiary enclave,
>but my doubt is: if it was a primary one, where would be the mainland
>and where the enclave? . As you can see, the municipality¹s capital
>of Tremp is a small territory surronded by another municipality ,
>and there are three bits of land owned by Tremp, one of them at least
>50 times bigger than the ³mainland². So, my question is: The
>capital¹s territory is an enclave ( considering the biggest as the
>mainland ) or not? I think it doesn¹t exist a case like this in
>primary level. I think the closest one would be Equatorial Guinea.

>Yeah, a belated one from me, too. Marcel, can you tell us more about
>Tremp? How on earth did that map get the way it is? It looks great.

Well, in this zone the municipal map is very fragmented: there are many
enclaves and fragments, which have the origin in feudal jurisdictions.
But the actual map of Tremp is very recent: the municipal map of
Catalonia is composed by more than 900 municipalities, the most with
less than 200 inhabitants. In the late years of the dictatorial régime
of Franco, many fusions of municipalities were imposed from Madrid's
offices, without a real knowledge of the territory. Tremp is an
exemple: the municipality of Tremp, now the capital-enclave had only 10
km2. From 1970 to 1972 seven municipalities were attached to it:
Espluga de la Serra (68,19 km2),Fígols de la Conca (77,88km2), Gurb de
la Conca (46,99), Palau de Noguera (2,71km2), Sapeira (78,33),
Suterranya (5,61km2) and Vilamitjana (13,98km2) creating a great
municipality ( more than 300 km2 ) wich capital is a small enclave
totally surronded by another municipality (Talarn ) and several
fragments bigger than it. We have to consider that the capital has
4,700 hab. and the rest of villages have less than 300 hab. Several
towns are more than 60 km away from Tremp, and the comunications are
bad, because is a mountain zone. To reach these little villages coming
from Tremp, the cars have to left Catalonia and take an aragonese road,
forming a sort of second-degree peneenclave.

A comission has worked last two years in the reorganization of the
catalan municipal map, but it seems the catalan parliament will not
sanction it because hundreds of little villages would resist to
disappear as municipalities.

Marcel

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