La Roca del Vallès

La Roca del Vallès
Municipality
Castle of La Roca
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 41°35′25″N 2°19′40″E
Country	Spain
Community	Catalonia
Province	Barcelona
Comarca	Vallès Oriental
Government
• Mayor	Albert Gil Gutiérrez (2015)[1]
Area [2]
• Total	36.9 km^2 (14.2 sq mi)
Population  (2018)[3]
• Total	10,666
• Density	290/km^2 (750/sq mi)
Website	laroca.cat

La Roca del Vallès (Catalan pronunciation: [lə ˈrɔkə ðəl βəˈʎɛs]) is a village in the comarca of Vallès Oriental in the province of Barcelona and Catalonia. The municipality covers an area of 36.9 square kilometres (14.2 sq mi) and the population in 2014 was 10,518.^[2]

Notable people

• Salvador Illa (born 1966), President of the Government of Catalonia, leader of the PSC, former Spanish minister of Health and former mayor of La Roca.

References

1. "Ajuntament de la Roca del Vallès". Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
2. "El municipi en xifres: La Roca del Vallès". Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
3. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.

External links

• Government data pages (in Catalan)