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12-452: Candasnos ( Spanish pronunciation: [kanˈdasnos] ) is a municipality located in the province of Huesca , Aragon , Spain . According to the 2004 census ( INE ), the municipality has a population of 470 inhabitants. 41°30′N 0°04′E  /  41.500°N 0.067°E  / 41.500; 0.067 This article about a location in the Province of Huesca is

24-527: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Huesca (province) Positioned just south of the central Pyrenees , Huesca borders France and the French departments of Haute-Garonne , Pyrénées-Atlantiques , and Hautes-Pyrénées . Within Spain, Huesca's neighboring provinces are Navarre , Zaragoza , and Lleida . Covering a primarily mountainous area of 15 626 km² , the province of Huesca has

36-522: A total population of 219,345 in 2018, with almost a quarter of its people living in the capital city of Huesca . The low population density, 14.62/km², has meant that Huesca's lush valleys, rivers, and lofty mountain ranges have remained relatively pristine and unspoiled by progress. Home to majestic scenery, the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees , the Aneto ; eternal glaciers, such as at Monte Perdido; and

48-652: Is the primary language in the province. However, the local linguistic varieties in the center and north of the province (often called fabla ) belong to the Aragonese language , which now survives mainly in the northernmost comarcas , such as the Aragon Valley in Jacetania , the Alto Gallego , Sobrarbe , and Ribagorza , where hitherto landlocked and isolated villages have helped the language to thrive into

60-463: The Aragonese language locally known as fabla . Sobrarbe is a mountainous region with some of the highest altitudes in the Pyrenees mountain range , extending from the heights of the Axial Pyrenees in the north and in the border with France, to the external Pyrenean mountain ranges in the south which separate it from the Aragonese mountains . The administrative capital is Boltaña and

72-564: The National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido , rich in flora and protected fauna. Popular with mountaineers , spelunkers , paragliders , and white water rafters , it is also a popular snow skiing destination with notable resorts in Candanchú , Formigal , Astún , Panticosa , and Cerler . The Romans colonised the province of Huesca, which formed the northern part of Hispania Tarraconensis , and continued to live there well into

84-518: The 21st century. In the easternmost areas of the province, varieties of the Catalan language are spoken, with a few transitional dialects difficult to classify as Aragonese or Catalan. Sobrarbe Sobrarbe is one of the comarcas of Aragon , Spain . It is located in the northern part of the province of Huesca , part of the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain . Many of its people speak

96-649: The 5th century until the arrival of the Visigoths . As a mountainous frontier region, it was difficult to dominate. The northern counties had at one time belonged to the Kingdom of Navarre but split off and managed to stem early Moorish invasions in the Middle Ages by forming alliances between themselves and with the Franks , to become Frankish feudal marches . The imperative of sovereignty , or independence, for

108-612: The economic development capital is Aínsa . Sobrarbe was one of the Christian principalities of the Marca Hispanica , with obscure origins. Legend says there was a Kingdom of Sobrarbe , where a cross appeared upon a tree Latin : Supra Arbore . It became part of the County of Aragon , but in the early 9th century was held for five years by Amrus ibn Yusuf , the governor of Zaragoza , being retaken after his death. Sobrarbe

120-612: The northern border counts, gave rise to the Kingdom of Aragon , which was the precursor to the Empire or Crown of Aragon , and ultimately the Kingdom of Spain . The modern day province comprises 10 comarcas and 202 municipalities. The following comarcas having their capital in Huesca Province include municipal terms within Zaragoza Province : The historical population is given in the following chart: Spanish

132-574: The region in 1015, similarly extending his power into Ribagorza over the subsequent years. Whatever hereditary claim might have existed was subsequently brought to Sancho through his wife Muniadona of Castile , heiress to the Ribagorza counts. Sancho divided the territories he had united, and his third son, Gonzalo , was given the counties of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. After the death of Gonzalo in 1038, his illegitimate half-brother Ramiro I of Aragon brought Sobrarbe and Ribagorza into his hands, creating

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144-472: Was joined to the County of Ribagorza in the early 10th century through the marriage of Bernard I of Ribagorza to Toda Galíndez of Aragon, daughter of Galindo Aznárez II . However, in the late 10th and early 11th century, a series of incursions from the south left it disorganized and depopulated, and for a time it again fell under Muslim control. This was reversed by Sancho the Great of Pamplona , who reconquered

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