Chía, Aragon

Municipality
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Aragon
Province	Huesca
Comarca	Ribagorza
Government
• Mayor	Enrique Barrau Pallaruelo (PP de Aragón)
Area
• Total	25.95 km2 (10.02 sq mi)
Elevation	1,195 m (3,921 ft)
Population (2012)
• Total	97
• Density	3.738/km2 (9.68/sq mi)
Postal code	22465

Chía is a small town in the eastern Pyrenees, in Aragon, Spain; it is a municipality in the Huesca province.^[3]

People in this region speak patués, a dialect of the eastern Aragonese language.

Geography

Frontal part of the altar of the San Martín de Chía church, from the 13th century. Now in the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, Barcelona.

Chía is in the Benasque Valley, on the foot of the Sierra de Chía, a short mountain range in the Pyrenees.^[3] It is about 114 km (70.8 mi) from Huesca, the capital city of the Huesca province.

The mean yearly temperature is 9.5 °C (49.1 °F) and the mean yearly rainfall is 1,200 mm (47.2 in).^[3]

Buildings

Saint Martin of Chía church, a small church with a Romanesque style of the 12th-13th centuries.
Saint Vincent church, also with a Romanesque style but it was changed a lot during the 18th century.^[4]^[5]

Local holiday

8 September - Spanish: Virgen de la Encontradacode: es is deprecated .^[3]

References

↑ "Zonas altimétricas por rangos en Aragón y España, y altitud de los municipios de Aragón" (in Spanish). Gobierno de Aragón. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
↑ "Censos de Población y Viviendas 2011" (in Spanish). INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 "Chía". GEA - Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (in Spanish). El Periódico de Aragón. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
↑ "Chía: Ermita de San Martín". Rutas Románicas por el altoaragon (in Spanish). Románico Aragonés. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
↑ "Chía - Ribagorza (La)". Turismo Huesca (in Spanish). CAI Aragon Turismo. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[elevacion-1] "Zonas altimétricas por rangos en Aragón y España, y altitud de los municipios de Aragón" (in Spanish). Gobierno de Aragón. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[pobla-2] "Censos de Población y Viviendas 2011" (in Spanish). INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[gea-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 "Chía". GEA - Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (in Spanish). El Periódico de Aragón. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[4] "Chía: Ermita de San Martín". Rutas Románicas por el altoaragon (in Spanish). Románico Aragonés. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[5] "Chía - Ribagorza (La)". Turismo Huesca (in Spanish). CAI Aragon Turismo. Retrieved 27 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

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