Alt Empordà

Alt Empordà
Alt Empordà
Comarca
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Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Catalonia
Region	Comarques Gironines
Province	Girona
Capital	Figueres
Municipalities	List Agullana, Albanyà, L'Armentera, Avinyonet de Puigventós, Bàscara, Biure, Boadella d'Empordà, Borrassà, Cabanelles, Cabanes, Cadaqués, Cantallops, Capmany, Castelló d’Empúries, Cistella, Colera, Darnius, L'Escala, Espolla, El Far d'Empordà, Figueres, Fortià, Garriguella, Garrigàs, La Junquera, Lladó, Llançà, Llers, Masarac, Maçanet de Cabrenys, Mollet de Peralada, Navata, Ordis, Palau de Santa Eulàlia, Paláu-Sabardera, Pau, Pedret i Marzà, Peralada, Pont de Molins, Pontós, El Port de la Selva, Portbou, Rabós, Riumors, Roses, Sant Climent Sescebes, Sant Llorenç de la Muga, Sant Miquel de Fluvià, Sant Mori, Sant Pere Pescador, Santa Llogaia d'Àlguema, Saus, Camallera i Llampaies, La Selva de Mar, Siurana, Terrades, Torroella de Fluvià, La Vajol, Ventalló, Vila-sacra, Vilabertran, Viladamat, Vilafant, Vilajuïga, Vilamacolum, Vilamalla, Vilamaniscle, Vilanant, Vilaür;
Government
• Body	Alt Empordà Comarcal Council
• President	Agustí Badosa (Junts)
Area
• Total	1,357.4 km2 (524.1 sq mi)
Population (2014)
• Total	140,214
• Density	100/km2 (270/sq mi)
Demonym
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Largest municipality	Figueres

Alt Empordà is one of the three counties into which Empordà was divided in the regional division of 1936, in the Gironine Counties. It has the shape of an inverted triangle with curves that places its base in the direction of the Pyrenees.

In 1936, the year of the first official regionalization of Catalonia, the division of most of Empordà into two administrative regions was approved, based more on economic and market criteria than on historical, geographical or cultural ones ( l'Alt Empordà and l'Baix Empordà), the limit of which was set by taking advantage of the imaginary line that runs through the Massís del Montgrí and continues between the watershed of the Ter and Fluvià basins.

It should be borne in mind that a small part of the Empordà remained within the limits of the Gironès, part of which today belongs to the Pla de l'Estany.

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