Comarca in Valencian Community, Spain
Baix Maestrat
Country Spain Autonomous community Valencian Community Province Castellón / Castelló Capital and largest city Vinaròs Municipalities
Alcalà de Xivert , Benicarló , Càlig , Canet lo Roig , Castell de Cabres , Cervera del Maestre , Chert/Xert , La Jana , Peñíscola , La Pobla de Benifassà , Rossell , La Salzadella , San Rafael del Río , Sant Jordi/San Jorge , Sant Mateu , Santa Magdalena de Pulpis , Traiguera , Vinaròs • Total
1,221.32 km2 (471.55 sq mi) • Total
81,871 • Density 67/km2 (170/sq mi) [ 1] Time zone UTC+1 (CET ) • Summer (DST ) UTC+2 (CEST )Largest municipalities Vinaròs , Benicarló
Baix Maestrat (Valencian: [ˈbajʒ maesˈtɾat] Spanish : Bajo Maestrazgo [ˈbaxo maesˈtɾaθɣo] comarca province of Castellón , Valencian Community , Spain . The capital of the comarca is Vinaròs .
Municipalities
The comarca is composed of 18 municipalities, listed below with their surface areas, their populations at the 2011 Census, and (according to the latest official estimates as of 1 January 2019), their population density in 2019:
Municipality
Surface2
Population [ 2] Population [ 3] Density2
Vinaròs
95.46
28,267
28,682
300.46
Benicarló
47.86
26,355
26,912
562.31
Peniscola
78.97
7,822
7,612
96.39
Alcalà de Xivert
167.56
7,826
6,680
39.87
Sant Mateu
64.62
2,062
1,963
30.38
Càlig
27.47
2,178
1,950
70.99
Traiguera
59.76
1,586
1,378
23.06
Sant Jordi/San Jorge
36.49
1,007
972
26.64
Rossell
74.93
1,133
937
12.51
Santa Magdalena de Polpís
66.49
844
768
11.55
La Salzadella
49.92
846
704
14.10
Xert
82.51
846
701
8.50
La Jana
19.50
766
675
34.56
Canet lo Roig
68.67
828
674
9.82
Cervera del Maestrat
93.24
686
575
6.17
San Rafael del Río
21.15
526
469
22.17
La Pobla de Benifassà
136.00
288
202
1.49
Castell de Cabres
30.72
20
17
0.55
Data from National Institute of Statistics 2019
Municipalities of Baix Maestrat
Geography
The comarca borders to the north-west with the province of Teruel (Aragon ), to the north-east with the province of Tarragona (Catalonia ), to the east with the Mediterranean Sea , to the south with the comarca of Plana Alta (Castellón , Valencia ) and to the west with the comarcas of Alt Maestrat (Castellón , Valencia ) and Els Ports (Castellón , Valencia ).
Within the comarca lies Serra d'Irta , an 18.8 km long mountain range and the largest undeveloped coastal area within the Valencian Community. The range includes the Natural Park of Serra d'Irta , which was declared a protected area by the Valencian Regional Government on July 16, 2002.
Economic activities
The area's traditional economic activities include agriculture (citrus fruits , olive trees , artichokes ) and fishing . Artichokes from Benicarló are covered by a geographic designation of origin .
Historical delimitations
The current comarca of Baix Maestrat also includes the historical subcomarcas of Tinença de Benifassà and Plana de Vinaròs. The localities of Albocàsser and Tírig (today located in Alt Maestrat ), and Les Coves de Vinromà , Sarratella , La Torre d'en Doménec , and Vilanova d'Alcolea (in Plana Alta ), were also formerly part of the historic comarca .
See also
References
^ Official estimate as at 1 January 2019: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2019.
^ Census of 1 November 2011: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2019.
^ Official estimate as at 1 January 2019: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2019.
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