Escaldes-Engordany

**Escaldes-Engordany** is one of the seven parishes of Andorra. It is in the southeast of the country. Escaldes-Engordany is also the name of the main town of the parish.

## History
The Escaldes-Engordany parish was created in 1978 with part of the territory of the Andorra la Vella parish with two urban areas: Escaldes and Engordany. With time, these two towns were combined to form the present capital of the parish.

## Geography
The Escaldes-Engordany parish is in the southeast of the country and borders with the Encamp parish to the north, with the Sant Julià de Lòria parish to the southwest, with the Andorra la Vella parish to the west and the La Massana parish to the northwest. Spain is to the east and south of the parish.

The highest mountain in the parish is *Tossa Plana* () with an elevation of  above sea level. It is in the southeast of the parish, on the border with Spain.

The main rivers in Escaldes-Engordany are the *Valira del Nord* and the ''Valira d'Orient*; they form the *Gran Valira* after their confluence in Escaldes-Engordany. Other river is the *Madriu*.

The town of Escaldes-Engordany is the capital of the parish; it is in the northwest of the parish, close to the town of Andorra la Vella, forming the largest urban area of the country.

## Population
The parish had a population, in 2015,  of 14,367 inhabitants,

Colors=
  id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9)
  id:darkgrey  value:gray(0.7)
  id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1)
  id:barra value:rgb(0.6,0.7,0.8)
ImageSize  = width:400 height:373
PlotArea   = left:50 bottom:50 top:30 right:30
DateFormat = x.y
Period     = from:0 till:18000
TimeAxis   = orientation:vertical
AlignBars  = justify
ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:2000 start:0
ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:1000 start:0
BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo
BarData=
  bar:1981 text:1981
  bar:1986 text:1986
  bar:1991 text:1991
  bar:1996 text:1996
  bar:2001 text:2001
  bar:2006 text:2006
  bar:2011 text:2011
  bar:2015 text:2015
PlotData=
  color:barra width:20 align:left
  bar:1981 from:0 till: 10412
  bar:1986 from:0 till: 11734
  bar:1991 from:0 till: 12772
  bar:1996 from:0 till: 15182
  bar:2001 from:0 till: 15519
  bar:2006 from:0 till: 16391
  bar:2011 from:0 till: 14395
  bar:2015 from:0 till: 14367
TextData=
  fontsize:S pos:(20,20)
  text:

## Villages
The urban areas in the parish are:
* **Escaldes-Engordany**, the main urban area of the parish; it is formed by:
** **Les Escaldes**, or just **Escaldes**, at an altitude of . The name *Les Escaldes* comes from the presence of numerous hot springs, which produce highly sulphurous and nitrogenous waters at temperatures between . The hot springs were known by the Romans who used them for medical purposes,
* *'Els Vilars d'Engordany'*, to the north of Engordany. Here is the *Sant Romà dels Vilars* chapel of the X century, at an altitude of  on the foot of the *Pic de Padern'' mountain.
* **Engolasters** at about  to the east of Andorra la Vella, at an altitude of .

## Economy
The main economic activity is tourism and the parish is a major tourism destination.

## Sites of interest
* **Sant Romà dels Vilars** church in Els Vilars d'Engordany
* '''Sant Miquel d'Engolasters** church in Engolasters
* **Pont d'Engordany**, a bridge built in 1785
* **Pont dels Escalls**, a bridge
* **Caldea''', a spa in Les Escaldes

## Gallery

File:Església de Sant Pere Màrtir4 PhotowalkAndorra.jpg|Sant Pere Màrtir church
File:Església de Sant Miquel d'Engolasters - 5.jpg|Sant Miquel d'Engolasters church
File:Sant Romà dels Vilars2.jpg|Sant Romà dels Vilars church
File:196 Pont d'Engordany, sobre la Valira.JPG|Pont d'Engordany bridge over the Valira river

## References