Vega de Granada

Vega de Granada
Comarca
Location in the province of Granada. Location in the province of Granada.
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Andalusia
Province	Granada
Capital	Granada
Area
• Total	1,362.22 km2 (525.96 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Total	500,121
• Density	370/km2 (950/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

The Vega de Granada is a comarca (county, but with no administrative role) in the province of Granada, southeastern Spain. According to the 2007 census (INE), the comarca has a population of 500,121 inhabitants.

Inaugurated in 2013, a cultural group, Vega Educa dedicated to environmental sustainability for the maintaining of the Vega staged its second show of music and poetry in April 2014, in Granada. Attended by Tim Robbins, artists (musicians and poets) included Miguel Rios, La Barraca, The family of Enrique Morente with the band - Lagartija Nick, Paco Ibanez, Lara Bello, Luis Garcia Montero and Laura Garcia Lorca. It was said the Leonard Cohen had been invited, but could not be tempted from his recurrent spiritual retreat for a matter so terrestrial. Viva La Vega!

Municipalities

• Albolote
• Alfacar
• Alhendín
• Armilla
• Atarfe
• Beas de Granada
• Cájar
• Calicasas
• Cenes de la Vega
• Chauchina
• Churriana de la Vega
• Cijuela
• Cogollos Vega
• Cúllar Vega
• Dílar
• Dúdar
• Fuente Vaqueros
• Las Gabias
• Gójar
• Granada
• Güéjar Sierra
• Güevéjar
• Huétor Santillán
• Huétor Vega
• Jun
• Láchar
• Maracena
• Monachil
• Nívar
• Ogíjares
• Otura
• Peligros
• Pinos Genil
• Pinos Puente
• Pulianas
• Quéntar
• Santa Fe
• Valderrubio
• Vegas del Genil
• Víznar
• La Zubia

External links

• Vega de Granada tourism (Spanish)
• Northeast of the Vega de Granada (Spanish)