Amer, Girona

Amer is a municipality in the comarca of la Selva in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Amer
Municipality
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Coordinates: 42°0′45″N 2°36′14″E
Country	Spain
Community	Catalonia
Province	Girona
Comarca	Selva
Government
• mayor	Maria Rosa Vila Juanhuix (2015)[1]
Area [2]
• Total	40.1 km^2 (15.5 sq mi)
Elevation	186 m (610 ft)
Population  (2018)[3]
• Total	2,256
• Density	56/km^2 (150/sq mi)
Website	www.amer.cat

Villages

• Amer 1.897
• Costa de Santa Brígida, la 53
• Grup Solivent, 206
• Lloret Salvatge, 3
• Palou, 24
• Sant Climent d'Amer, 35
• Sant Genís, 0
• Veïnat de la Jonquera, 21
• Veïnat del Colomer, 7
• Veïnat del Mont, 12

Notable people

Carles Puigdemont, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia who impulsed a referendum on Catalan independence on 2017, was born in Amer in 1962.[4]

References

1. "Ajuntament d'Amer". Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
2. "El municipi en xifres: Amer". Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
3. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
4. Ciaran Giles (21 September 2017). "Puigdemont an unknown entity in Spain until secession drive". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-09-22.

• Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). Guia de Catalunya, Barcelona: Caixa de Catalunya. ISBN 84-87135-01-3 (Spanish). ISBN 84-87135-02-1 (Catalan).

External links

• Pàgina web de l'Ajuntament* Government data pages (in Catalan)