Maresme

Maresme
Comarca
Coat of arms of Maresme
Coat of arms
Country Spain
Autonomous community Catalonia
Province Barcelona
RegionÀmbit metropolità de Barcelona
CapitalMataró
Municipalities
List
Government
 • BodyMaresme Comarcal Council
 • PresidentFrancesc Alemany (ERC)
Area
 • Total
398.6 km2 (153.9 sq mi)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total
437,919
 • Density1,099/km2 (2,845/sq mi)
Demonymsmaresmenc (m.)
maresmenca (f.)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Largest municipalityMataró
Montcabrer, comarca of the Maresme

Maresme (Catalan pronunciation: [məˈɾɛzmə]) is a comarca (county) in the Barcelona region in Catalonia. It extends from Montgat in the southwest to the Tordera River in the northeast, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Catalan Coastal Range.

The Maresme has an area of approximately 399 km² and about 50 km of coastline,[1] consists of 30 municipalities. Its capital and largest city is Mataró (pop. 119,035 in 2007).[2]

The comarca was established as an administrative unit in 1937, following the 1936 territorial division of Catalonia, and its 30 municipalities were ratified in 1987.[3]

As of 1 January 2025, Maresme had 477,375 inhabitants, of whom 66,641 were foreign nationals, representing 13.96% of the population.[4]

Geography

Maresme occupies a long and narrow area between the Mediterranean Sea and the hills of Serralada Litoral (Catalonia's coastal mountains), and specifically Montnegre's and Corredor's hills in the northern half and Sant Mateu's hills in the southern half. This particular shape has conditioned both the geography and the history of this comarca. Probably the main distinct elements of its geography are the characteristic rieres (torrents). These short, intermittent streams, which cross the comarca transversally about every hundred meters, produce powerful and dangerous floods when it rains.

Canet des de els Tarongers

Maresme has been historically very well connected with the rest of the comarca as well as with Barcelona by the old Camí Ral (Royal Way) (current N-II main road) and railroad (The Barcelona–Mataró railroad route, finished in 1848, was the first ever in all the Iberian Peninsula). Communications were enhanced in recent years with the construction of the C-32's Barcelona–Mataró section (1969), which was the first autopista (highway) ever in Spain, and its subsequent enlargement, the Mataró-Palafolls's section (1995).

Municipalities

Municipality Population
(2014)[5]		 Area
km2[5]
Alella9,6519.6
Arenys de Mar15,3076.8
Arenys de Munt8,65421.3
Argentona11,96325.4
Cabrera de Mar4,5259.0
Cabrils7,1977.0
Caldes d'Estrac2,7380.9
Calella18,3078.0
Canet de Mar14,1235.6
Dosrius5,13740.7
Malgrat de Mar18,4178.8
El Masnou22,7423.4
Mataró124,28022.5
Montgat11,3152.9
Òrrius6905.7
Palafolls9,06516.6
Pineda de Mar25,94810.7
Premià de Dalt10,3116.6
Premià de Mar28,1632.1
Sant Andreu de Llavaneres10,59011.8
Sant Cebrià de Vallalta3,32815.7
Sant Iscle de Vallalta1,30417.8
Sant Pol de Mar4,9977.5
Sant Vicenç de Montalt6,0078.0
Santa Susanna3,29312.6
Teià6,1416.6
Tiana8,3148.0
Tordera16,34584.1
Vilassar de Dalt8,8828.9
Vilassar de Mar20,1854.0
• Total: 30437,919398.6
Map

References

  1. ↑ "II. Datos del solicitante" (PDF). Consell Comarcal del Maresme.
  2. ↑ "Maresme". www.catalunya.com. Retrieved 2026-07-11.
  3. ↑ "El Maresme". Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  4. ↑ "Population by nationality and sex. Maresme". Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya (Idescat).
  5. 1 2 "El municipi en xifres". Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya. Retrieved 2015-05-25.
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