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==Geography== The region is located south of the French border with the [[Pallars]] in the east and the [[Sobrarbe]] in the west. The physiography of the Ribagorça natural region includes the [[Ésera]], [[Isábena (river)|Isábena]] and Noguera Ribagorçana river basins with their tributaries. The region also encompasses the mountain ranges spanning the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees area that surrounds the basins of these south-flowing rivers.<ref>Manuel Serrano y Sanz, ''Noticias y documentos históricos del Condado de Ribagorza''</ref><ref>[http://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-0006813.xml Josep Pla i Casadevall, ''Gran enciclopèdia catalana'' - la Baixa Ribagorça]</ref> {| |- valign="top" |[[File:Serra de Sis (Prepirineus).jpg|thumb|330px|The [[Mountains of Sis]], one of the mighty ranges of Ribagorça.]] |[[File:Benavarri.JPG|thumb|245px|View of [[Benabarre]] (Benavarri), the former capital of the region.]] |[[File:El Turbó..jpg|thumb|280px|[[El Turbón]]]] |} ===Municipalities=== The traditional capital of the region was [[Benabarre]] ({{langx|ca|Benavarri}}); according to the 2014 [[census]],<ref>[[Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)|Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)]]</ref> the municipality has a population of 1,153 inhabitants. In present times, however, the most important town of the Ribagorça is [[Graus]] with a population of 3,429 in 2014. ===Present-day administrative divisions=== ====Ribagorza/Ribagorça==== {{main|Ribagorza/Ribagorça}} Ribagorza/Ribagorça is a comarca of Aragon established in 2002. It forms the northeastern part of [[Huesca (province)|Huesca Province]]. It borders the [[Departments of France|French ''département'']] of the [[Haute-Garonne]] to the north, the [[Aran Valley]], [[Alta Ribagorça]], [[Pallars Jussà]], and [[Noguera (comarca)|Noguera]] to the east, [[Sobrarbe]] to the west, as well as [[Somontano de Barbastro]] and [[La Litera|La Litera/La Llitera]] to the south.<ref>[http://portal.aragob.es/pls/portal30/docs/FOLDER/CA_EHE/FD_EHE_DOCUMENTACION/FD_EHE_DOCUMIAEST/FD_EHE_IAEST_001/FD_EHE_IAEST_001DB/FD_EHE_IAEST_001DB03/DB200312.PDF Comarcal statistics (Aragonese Statistical Institute)]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The territory of the modern Aragonese comarca was traditionally known as ''Baixa Ribagorça'' in Catalan.<ref>A. Masiá de Ros, ''La cuestión de los límites enre Aragón y Cataluña''</ref> ====Alta Ribagorça==== {{main|Alta Ribagorça}} Present-day Alta Ribagorça is one of the [[Catalonia/Comarques|''comarques'' of Catalonia]]. Its capital is [[Pont de Suert]]. Other municipalities are [[Vall de Boí]] and [[Vilaller]].
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