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Montgai is a municipality in the province of Lleida and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. It is situated in the valley of the river Sió among the hills of Bellmunt in the south and the mountains of Montclar in the north.

Montgai
Municipality
Butsènit d'Urgell village
Seal
Montgai Location in Catalonia
Coordinates: 41°47′59″N 0°57′39″E
Country	Spain
Community	Catalonia
Province	Lleida
Comarca	Noguera
Government
• Mayor	Jaume Gilabert Torruella (2015)[1]
Area [2]
• Total	28.9 km2 (11.2 sq mi)
Elevation	286 m (938 ft)
Population  (2018)[3]
• Total	635
• Density	22/km2 (57/sq mi)
Website	www.montgai.cat

The municipality consists of two villages: Montgai and Butsènit d'Urgell.

Economy

The economy is based in the agricultural activities. The expansion of cultivated land is quite divided between dry and irrigated land.

Population

In the 20th century Montgai had 27 houses, and increased the number of inhabitants until the 1930s. Then, it started a decrease because of economic crisis in the agriculture, and today there are 663 citizens.

Montgai: the village

In the middle of the village there is the church Mare de Déu de l'Assumpció, built in the mid-eighteenth century.

Butsènit d'Urgell

References

External links

• Government data pages (in Catalan)

На других языках

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- [en] Montgai

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[es] Mongay (Lérida)

Mongay[2][3][4] (en catalán y oficialmente Montgai) es un municipio español de la provincia de Lérida, situado en el sureste de la comarca de la Noguera. Incluye el agregado de Butsenit.

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[ru] Монгай

Монгай (исп. Montgai) — муниципалитет в Испании, входит в провинцию Льейда в составе автономного сообщества Каталония. Муниципалитет находится в составе района (комарки) Ногера. Занимает площадь 28,92 км². Население — 718 человек (на 2010 год).

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