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The Capitale is Andorra Vella.
Four rivers sprinkle the country:
Northern Valira LED, Valira d' Orient, Madriu and after their
junction in Escaldes-Engordany, Gran Valira.
Andorra was founded, according to
the legend, by Charlemagne in year 784 and became a feudal possession
of the Bishops of Urgell and Counts de Foix, whose successors are,
nowadays, the Bishop of Urgell and the President of the French
Republic.
Andorra is controlled by the
General Council chaired by two Syndics. It is made of 28 General
Advisers elected officials for four years by the vote for all, which
represent the seven parishes (various geographical and administrative
demarcations): Canillo, Encamp, Ordino, Massana, Andorra Vella,
Sant Julià de Loria and Escaldes-Engordany.
The General Council elects a Chief of Government which in his
turn names its Ministers, and presents his political program at the
General Council.
The official language is the
Catalan, but French and Spanish are also generally practised there.
The principal resources are:
tourism, trade, tobacco, the breeding of cattle. |