Graus
Municipality in Aragon, Spain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Spanish village. For the sea chub genus, see Graus (genus).
Graus (Spanish: [ˈɡɾaws]) is a village in the Spanish province of Huesca, located in the Pyrenees at the confluence of rivers Esera and Isabena. It is the administrative capital of the region. It is one of the areas of Aragon in which is still preserved the Aragonese language.
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Coordinates: 42°11′15″N 0°20′3″E | |
Country | Spain |
Autonomous Community | Aragon |
Province | Huesca |
Comarca | Ribagorza |
Judicial district | Barbastro |
Government | |
• Mayor | José Antonio Lagüens (PP) |
Area | |
• Total | 299.79 km2 (115.75 sq mi) |
Elevation | 542 m (1,778 ft) |
Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 3,305 |
• Density | 11/km2 (29/sq mi) |
Demonym | Grausino |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 22430 |
Patron Saints | Vincent Ferrer |
Website | Official website |
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The Battle of Graus took place here, and Spanish philosopher Baltasar Gracián y Morales was exiled here. During the Spanish Civil War, the village of Graus served as a fairly important local commercial center with 2,600 inhabitants around 1936. It was a libertarian stronghold and a centre of collectivization at that time.