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Map type

Hi! To do this map I have used inkscape, a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images. You can download it here . To do it I have based on this svg map. I am afraid I cannot help you saying which type of map is. Here you have a very good tutorial . I am afraid I cannot help you on what type of map is. :) --Basque mapping (talk) 19:14, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Basque mapping, interesting. I use QGIS, so I was hoping to try this out for local elections where I live, but I'll check out the tutorial. So far I've only been able to make Choropleth map. I'd like to be able to make these "dot" maps. --Criticalthinker (talk) 19:59, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Re:Comarcas of Spain

Hello, and please excuse my late reply. I don’t visit this very often.

Indeed, a comarca (Spanish local district) can span two or more provinces. What never happens, however, is for a single municipality to be divided between different comarcas. It is also quite unusual for a comarca to belong to two autonomous communities. The only examples that come to mind are La Alcarria, which straddles Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha (once a single region), and Ribagorza, on the border between Catalonia and Aragon. In Catalonia it is known as Alta Ribagorça (“Upper Ribagorza”), while in Aragon —which covers about 80% of the area— it is simply called Ribagorza. My grandparents are from there, by the way. In some contexts, the whole Ribagorza is referred to as a natural (or historic) comarca, since it goes back to the medieval County of Ribagorza, which roughly encompassed the same inter-regional territory. However, administratively —and even in terms of how locals perceive themselves— they are considered two different comarcas.

In the description of this map, you will see exactly which autonomous communities have an official comarcal division (regulated by law, with some even having their own local governing bodies) and which do not.

Comarcas exist naturally as territorial units, but it is up to each autonomous community to decide whether to formalize them. In some cases, they are even granted political competences for cultural reasons, as in the Val d’Aran.

The fact that an autonomous community does not have an official comarcalization does not mean that it lacks comarcas altogether. It simply means that maps may vary slightly. This often depends on local interests, ranging from agriculture to tourism development.

The logic behind the map is:

• ✅ If there is an official comarcal division → use that.
• ❌ If there isn’t → use the most widely accepted/popular version.

In any case, comarcas are based on very local criteria (a valley, a mountain range, a territory with a shared identity). That is why they are flexible, and why you may see differences from one map to another. Sometimes very broad areas are called a comarca, such as La Mancha, which appears subdivided in maps but is often referred to as a single unit in everyday language. (In fact, Castilla-La Mancha is a region without an official comarcal division).

I hope this helps to clarify your doubts.

Kind regards, – El Mono 🐒 (talk - es.wiki) 15:40, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@El Mono Español, I'd discussed this on the articles talk page after seeking comment from you on Wiki commons. But a few things:

1. It appears that, by law, a legal comarca is a division of an autonomous community. So that means that they can not cross these borders, though they can cross the borders of provinces within an autonomous community. If they are thought of as crossing borders, that only means that two or more are created on each side of a autonomous community boundary.

2. The mape you linked me so I do not think shows "exactly which autonomous communities have an official comarcal division." There doesn't appear to be anything on that map to differentiate between "official" or legal comarcas, and "traditional" ones. But as far as I've been able to gather, every autonomous mainland community is divided into legal comarca, even if in some they are not used for administration.

Perhaps some things are getting lost in translation, here. Criticalthinker (talk) 11:38, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello Critikalthinker. A legal comarca cannot belong to two autonomous communities. In the attached images you can see that La Alcarria is a natural comarca (not legal), defined by geographical criteria. In the case of Ribagorza, there are two legally differentiated comarcas (one in Aragon and one in Catalonia), and in addition the notion of a historic comarca is used to refer to the whole. From an administrative perspective, however, they are two separate comarcas. Let me answer you in the discussion of the article. – El Mono 🐒 (talk - es.wiki) 13:20, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. But you keep saying that in the description on this map that you made that it distinguishes between the legal and natural. I am not seeing this. The (English) description simply reads "Map of the comarcas (counties) of Spain." Criticalthinker (talk) 20:06, 16 September 2025 (UTC)