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| subdivision_type        = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
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| subdivision_type1       = [[Autonomous communities of Spain|Autonomous community]]
| subdivision_name1       = {{flag|Catalonia}}
| subdivision_type2       = [[Vegueria|Region]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[Camp de Tarragona]]
| subdivision_type3       = [[Provinces of Spain|Province]]
| subdivision_name3       = [[Tarragona (province)|Tarragona]]
| seat_type               = [[Capital (political)|Capital]]
| seat                    = [[Valls]]
| leader_title1           = Body
| leader_name1            = [[#Comarcal council|Alt Camp Comarcal Council]]
| leader_title2           = President
| leader_name2            = Mateu Montserrat ([[Together for Catalonia (2020)|Junts]])
| parts_type              = Municipalities
| parts_style             = list
| p1                      = [[Aiguamúrcia]], [[Alcover]], [[Alió]], [[Bràfim]], [[Cabra del Camp]], [[Figuerola del Camp]], [[Els Garidells]], [[La Masó]], [[El Milà]], [[Mont-ral]], [[Montferri]], [[Nulles]], [[El Pla de Santa Maria]], [[El Pont d'Armentera]], [[Puigpelat]], [[Querol]], [[La Riba]], [[Rodonyà]], [[El Rourell]], [[Vallmoll]], [[Valls]], [[Vila-rodona]], [[Vilabella]]
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| area_total_km2          = 538.2
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| population_total        = 46,076
| population_as_of        = 2024
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'''Alt Camp''' ({{IPA|ca|ˈal ˈkam}}) is a [[Comarques of Catalonia|comarca (county)]] located in the region of [[Camp de Tarragona]], in [[Catalonia]], [[Spain]]. The capital is the city of [[Valls]].

==Geography==
To the north of the county lies [[Conca de Barberà]], to the northeast lies [[Anoia]], to the east and southeast lie [[Alt Penedès]] and [[Baix Penedès]], to the south lies [[Tarragonès]] and to the southwest and west lies [[Baix Camp]].<ref name=Philip>{{cite book |title=Philip's Modern School Atlas |year=1973 |publisher=George Philip & Son |isbn=0-540-05278-7 |page=37 }}</ref> Alt Camp has an area of {{convert|544.69|km2}} and the capital of the county is [[Valls]].

The county is divided into two main topographical areas. The northeastern part is mountainous and is in the [[Catalan Pre-Coastal Range]] while the southwestern part is a lowland plain in the [[Catalan Coastal Depression]].<ref name=Philip/> The lowland plains of Alt Camp are predominantly used for agriculture.<ref name=Calbet/> In the valley of the River Gaia, cherries, vines, olives and almonds are grown, and on irrigated land, vegetables, hazelnuts and various fruit trees. The municipality of [[Bràfim]] in this valley has a small industrial area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.altcamp.info/eng/brafim.htm |title=Alt Camp: Bràfim |work=Alt Camp Tourism |access-date=9 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116222454/http://www.altcamp.info/eng/brafim.htm |archive-date=16 November 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The mountain slopes are covered in [[Maquis shrubland|maquis]], an evergreen Mediterranean scrub with bushes and small trees, including many aromatic shrubs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/science/maquis-vegetation |title=Maquis vegetation |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=9 November 2015}}</ref> The olives and grapevines that used to grow on terraces there have been abandoned. Among the scrub there are patches of [[Populus|poplar]], [[elm]], [[white pine]], [[Quercus faginea|Portuguese oak]] and [[Quercus ilex|holm oak]]. Frequent [[wildfire]]s prevent the establishment of permanent forests.<ref name=Calbet>{{cite book |title=Alt Camp: marc físic marc humà |last=Calbet |first=Josep M. |last2=Jové |first2=Teresa M. |year=1983 |publisher=Generalitat de Catalunya |isbn=84-300-8291-3 }}</ref>

== Municipalities ==
In 2014, 44,578 people lived in the county: 24,570 of them lived in Valls; 5,131 in [[Alcover]]; 2,344 in [[El Pla de Santa Maria]]; 1,670 in [[Vallmoll]]; 1,264 in [[Vila-rodona]]; 1,115 in [[Cabra del Camp]] and 1,083 in [[Puigpelat]]. The remaining 8,401 inhabitants lived in municipalities with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants.<ref name=idescat/>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Municipality
! Population{{Clear}}(2014)<ref name=idescat>{{cite web|url=http://www.idescat.cat/emex/|title=El municipi en xifres|publisher=Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya|access-date=2015-05-25}}</ref>
! Area{{Clear}}km{{sup|2}}<ref name=idescat/>
|-
| [[Aiguamúrcia]] || align=right | 909 || align=right | 73.0
|-
| [[Alcover]] || align=right | 5,131 || align=right | 46.0
|-
| [[Alió]] || align=right | 432 || align=right | 7.2
|-
| [[Bràfim]] || align=right | 660 || align=right | 6.4
|-
| [[Cabra del Camp]] || align=right | 1,115 || align=right | 27.0
|-
| [[Figuerola del Camp]] || align=right | 345 || align=right | 22.7
|-
| [[Els Garidells]] || align=right | 182 || align=right | 3.1
|-
| [[La Masó]] || align=right | 288 || align=right | 3.6
|-
| [[El Milà]] || align=right | 174 || align=right | 4.1
|-
| [[Mont-ral]] || align=right | 165 || align=right | 34.7
|-
| [[Montferri]] || align=right | 369 || align=right | 19.2
|-
| [[Nulles]] || align=right | 453 || align=right | 10.6
|-
| [[El Pla de Santa Maria]] || align=right | 2,344 || align=right | 35.0
|-
| [[El Pont d'Armentera]] || align=right | 561 || align=right | 21.7
|-
| [[Puigpelat]] || align=right | 1,083 || align=right | 9.5
|-
| [[Querol]] || align=right | 550 || align=right | 72.3
|-
| [[La Riba]] || align=right | 601 || align=right | 8.0
|-
| [[Rodonyà]] || align=right | 513 || align=right | 8.5
|-
| [[El Rourell]] || align=right | 394 || align=right | 2.3
|-
| [[Vallmoll]] || align=right | 1,670 || align=right | 16.7
|-
| [[Valls]] || align=right | 24,570 || align=right | 55.3
|-
| [[Vila-rodona]] || align=right | 1,264 || align=right | 33.1
|-
| [[Vilabella]] || align=right | 805 || align=right | 18.2
|-class="sortbottom"
| • Total: 23 || align=right | 44,578 || align=right | 538.2
|}

==Comarcal council==
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|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! colspan="4" |Councilors in County Council of Alt Camp since 1987
|-
| colspan="4" | {{hidden begin|title=''Key to parties''|contentstyle=font-size:95%; border:solid 1px silver; padding:8px; background:white;}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=12.5em}}
{{legend|{{party color|Popular Unity Candidacy}}|[[Popular Unity Candidacy|CUP]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend|{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}|[[Republican Left of Catalonia|ERC]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend|#008000|[[Federació d'Independents de Catalunya|FIC]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend|{{party color|Independent}}|[[Association of Elector Groups of Alt Camp|AAEAC]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend|{{party color|Independent}}|[[Alcovencs pel Canvi|ApC]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend|{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}|[[Socialists' Party of Catalonia|PSC]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend|{{party color|Together for Catalonia (2017)}}|[[Together for Catalonia (2017)|JxCat]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend|{{party color|Together for Catalonia (2020)}}|[[Together for Catalonia (2020)|Junts]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{legend|{{party color|Convergence and Union}}|[[Convergence and Union|CiU]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
{{colend}}
{{hidden end}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Election
! Distribution
! colspan="2"|President
|-
| align=center|[[1987 Spanish local elections|1987]]
| 
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:5em; color:white;" | 5
| style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}; width:14em; color:white;" | 14
|}
| rowspan="1" |Josep Vilanova Puigbó ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]])
| rowspan="9" style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}};"|
|-
| align=center|[[1991 Spanish local elections|1991]]
|
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Independent}}; width:1em; color:white;" | 1
| style="background:{{party color|Independent}}; width:2em; color:white;" | 2
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:4em; color:white;" | 4
| style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}; width:12em; color:white;" | 12
|}
| rowspan="1" |Josep Fort Romeu ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]])
|-
| rowspan="2" align=center|[[1995 Spanish local elections|1995]]
| rowspan="2" |
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}; width:1em; color:white;" | 1
| style="background:#008000; width:1em; color:white;" |1
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:5em; color:white;" | 5
| style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}; width:12em; color:white;" | 12
|}
| rowspan="1" |Josep Fort Romeu ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]]) {{small|(1995-1997)}}
|-
| rowspan="1" |Carles Vidal Bové ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]]) {{small|(1997-1999)}}
|-
| align=center|[[1999 Spanish local elections|1999]]
|
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}; width:3em; color:white;" | 3
| style="background:#008000; width:2em; color:white;" | 2
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:4em; color:white;" | 4
| style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}; width:10em; color:white;" | 10
|}
| rowspan="2" |Josep Jesús Escoda Anguera ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]])
|-
| align=center|[[2003 Spanish local elections|2003]]
|
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}; width:2em; color:white;" | 2
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:7em; color:white;" | 7
| style="background:{{party color|Independent}}; width:1em; color:white;" | 1
| style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}; width:9em; color:white;" | 9
|}
|-
| align=center|[[2007 Spanish local elections|2007]]
| 
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}; width:2em; color:white;" | 2
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:7em; color:white;" | 7
| style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}; width:10em; color:white;" | 10
|}
| rowspan="1" |Carme Mansilla ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]])
|-
| align=center|[[2011 Spanish local elections|2011]]
|
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Popular Unity Candidacy}}; width:1em; color:white;" | 1
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}; width:1em; color:white;" | 1
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:5em; color:white;" | 5
| style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}; width:12em; color:white;" | 12
|}
| rowspan="1" |Joan Josep Raventós ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]])
|-
| align=center|[[2015 Spanish local elections|2015]]
|
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Popular Unity Candidacy}}; width:2em; color:white;" | 2
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}; width:3em; color:white;" | 3
| style="background:{{party color|Independent}}; width:1em; color:white;" | 1
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:3em; color:white;" | 3
| style="background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}; width:10em; color:white;" | 10
|}
| Joan Maria Sanahuja ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]])
|-
| rowspan="2" align=center|[[2019 Spanish local elections|2019]]
| rowspan="2" | 
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Popular Unity Candidacy}}; width:2em; color:white;" | 2
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}; width:5em; color:white;" | 5
| style="background:{{party color|Independent}}; width:1em; color:white;" | 1
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:2em; color:white;" | 2
| style="background:{{party color|Together for Catalonia (2017)}}; width:9em; color:white;" | 9
|}
|| Joan Maria Sanahuja ([[Together for Catalonia (2017)|JxCat]]) {{small|(2019-2020)}}
| rowspan="1" style="background:{{party color|Together for Catalonia (2017)}};"|
|-
| rowspan="1" |Mateu Montserrat ([[Together for Catalonia (2020)|Junts]]) {{small|(2020-2023)}}
| rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Together for Catalonia (2020)}};"|
|-
| align=center|[[2023 Spanish local elections|2023]]
|
{| style="width:45em; font-size:85%; text-align:center; font-family:Courier New;"
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="background:{{party color|Popular Unity Candidacy}}; width:1em; color:white;" | 1
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}; width:5em; color:white;" | 5
| style="background:{{party color|Independent}}; width:2em; color:white;" | 2
| style="background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}; width:3em; color:white;" | 3
| style="background:{{party color|Together for Catalonia (2020)}}; width:8em; color:white;" | 8
|}
| rowspan="1" |Mateu Montserrat ([[Together for Catalonia (2020)|Junts]])
|-
| align="left" colspan="4"| Sources<ref name="cat87">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C19881 |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 1988. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat91">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C19911#dades |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 1991. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat95">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C19951#dades |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 1995. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat99">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C19991#dades |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 1999. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat2003">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C20031#dades |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 2003. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat2007">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C20071#dades |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 2007. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat2011">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C20111#dades |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 2011. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat2015">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C20151#dades |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 2015. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat2015_2">{{cite web |url=https://gencat.cat/eleccions/resultatscc2015/resultats/oc/report/infConsellsComarcals.pdf |title=Eleccions a Consells Comarcals 2015 |website=gencat.cat |language=ca |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat2019">{{cite web |url=https://resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat/#/dades?tipusProces=C&proces=C20191#dades |title=Resultats electorals. Eleccions a consells comarcals 2019. Catalunya (Catalunya). Candidatures. |language=ca |website=resultats.dadeselectorals.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat2019_2">{{cite web |url=https://gencat.cat/eleccions/resultatscc2019/resultados/ca/report/CCC2019/CC2019_comparativa_consellers_cat.pdf |title=Resultats Consells Comarcals 2019. Recompte Provisional |website=gencat.cat |language=ca |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="cat2023">{{cite web |url=https://eleccions.gencat.cat/ca/locals_i_aran/consells-comarcals/composicio-dels-consells-comarcals/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602144135/https://eleccions.gencat.cat/ca/locals_i_aran/consells-comarcals/composicio-dels-consells-comarcals/index.html |title=Composició dels Consells Comarcals 2023. Processos electorals |language=ca |website=eleccions.gencat.cat |publisher=[[Generalitat de Catalunya]] |access-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-date=June 2, 2023}}</ref>
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==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.altcamp.altanet.org/ Official comarcal web site] {{in lang|ca}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040102142033/http://www.municat.net:8000/omunicat/owa/mun_p01.dad_ens?via=0&cod=8100170005&err=0 Informacion about Alt Camp from the Generalitat de Catalunya] {{in lang|ca}}
{{Clear}}
{{Geographic location
 | Centre = Alt Camp
 | N  = [[Conca de Barberà]]
 | NE = [[Anoia]]
 | E  = [[Alt Penedès]]
 | SE = [[Baix Penedès]]
 | S  = [[Tarragonès]]
 | SW = [[Baix Camp]]
 | W  = 
 | NW = 
}}

{{Comarques of Catalonia}}
{{Authority control}}
{{Coord|41|17|N|1|15|E|region:ES-CT_type:adm2nd_source:cawiki|display=title}}

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[[Category:Comarques of the Province of Tarragona]]