41°06′N 1°06′E / 41.1°N 1.1°E Baix Camp (Catalan pronunciation: ) is a comarca located in the region of Camp de Tarragona, in Catalonia.The capital is the city of Reus.
Baix Camp | |
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Country | Spain |
Autonomous community | Catalonia |
(Region) | Camp de Tarragona |
Province | Tarragona |
Capital | Reus |
Municipalities | List
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Government | |
• Body | Baix Camp Comarcal Council |
• President | Ernest Roigé (ERC) (2023-2025) Joan Josep Garcia (Junts) (2025-2027) |
Area | |
• Total | 697.3 km2 (269.2 sq mi) |
Population (2014) | |
• Total | 190,249 |
• Density | 270/km2 (710/sq mi) |
Demonym | |
Time zone | (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | (CEST) |
Largest municipality | Reus |
Baix Camp is located on the coast, between Tarragonès to the northeast and (Baix Ebre) to the south. It also borders the comarques of (Priorat), (Ribera d'Ebre), Conca de Barberà, Alt Camp, and Tarragonès.
Population
Almost 150,000 people inhabit Baix Camp. The population has increased gently since the middle of the twentieth century, with population growth averaging 1.5% annually during the last three decades. Growth is not evenly distributed, however, but is strongly focused on Reus, the industrial and commercial centre of the region. Around two-thirds of the inhabitants of Baix Camp live in Reus, which from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries was the second most populous city in Catalonia, after Barcelona. Taking Catalonia as a whole, the place of Reus in the population rankings has now slipped to tenth. Within Baix Camp, the only other municipality with more than 10,000 inhabitants is (Cambrils).
Economy
In the agricultural sector almonds and hazelnuts are a major crops, together representing 30% of primary sector production. Viticulture has never regained the level of dominance that it enjoyed before the European Phylloxera epidemic that peaked in the 1870s. High dependency on almonds and hazelnuts nevertheless leaves the entire regional economy vulnerable to declining world market prices that have accompanied increased globalization of the agricultural sector. Some price protection is afforded to growers by protected designation for "Hazelnuts from Reus" which actually covers not just production from Reus but also that from neighboring Alt Camp, Tarragonès, Priorat, Conca de Barberà and Terra Alta.
Municipalities
After the capital Reus, the major cities are (Cambrils) and (Mont-roig del Camp); other significant towns are (Riudoms) and .
Smaller municipalities:
- North of Reus, at the foot of : (Castellvell del Camp) and (Almoster).
- In the (Mountains of Prades): (Prades), (Capafonts), (Arbolí), and (l'Albiol).
- In the valley of the river Maspujols: Vilaplana, (l'Aleixar), and (Maspujols).
- In the valley of the river Alforja: (Alforja), (les Borges del Camp), and (Vinyols i els Arcs).
- Between the ranges of and : (Riudecols).
- In the valley of the ravine of : (Montbrió del Camp), and (Botarell).
- Near (Mont-roig del Camp): (Vilanova d'Escornalbou), (Colldejou), and (la Torre de Fontaubella)
- At the western edge of the comarca: (Pratdip) and the municipality of (Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant).
List of municipalities
Municipality | Population (2014) | Area km2 |
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(L'Albiol) | 458 | 20.3 |
(L'Aleixar) | 891 | 26.1 |
(Alforja) | 1,859 | 38.2 |
(Almoster) | 1,396 | 6.0 |
(Arbolí) | 105 | 20.8 |
(L'Argentera) | 146 | 10.1 |
(Les Borges del Camp) | 2,077 | 8.2 |
(Botarell) | 1,100 | 12.0 |
(Cambrils) | 33,301 | 35.2 |
(Capafonts) | 114 | 13.4 |
(Castellvell del Camp) | 2,869 | 5.2 |
(Colldejou) | 172 | 14.5 |
(Duesaigües) | 239 | 13.6 |
(La Febró) | 40 | 16.1 |
(Maspujols) | 782 | 3.7 |
(Mont-roig del Camp) | 12,148 | 63.3 |
(Montbrió del Camp) | 2,650 | 10.7 |
(Prades) | 626 | 32.6 |
(Pratdip) | 685 | 36.3 |
Reus | 104,962 | 52.8 |
(Riudecanyes) | 1,142 | 17.1 |
(Riudecols) | 1,254 | 19.5 |
(Riudoms) | 6,546 | 32.4 |
(La Selva del Camp) | 5,598 | 35.3 |
(Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant) | 6,047 | 102.7 |
(Vilanova d'Escornalbou) | 540 | 17.2 |
Vilaplana | 630 | 23.2 |
(Vinyols i els Arcs) | 1,872 | 10.8 |
• Total: 28 | 190,249 | 697.3 |
References
- "El municipi en xifres". Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya. Retrieved 2015-05-25.