Artà

Artà is one of the 53 independent municipalities on the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca. The small town of the same name is the administrative seat of this municipality in the region of Llevant.

In 2008 the municipality of Artà had a population of 7,113 recorded residents within an area of 139.63 square kilometres . This equates to 50.9 inhabitants per km2. In 2006 the percentage of foreigners was 13.2% , of which Germans made up 3.9% . In 1991 there were still 136 illiterates in the municipality. 1,292 inhabitants had no education, 1,675 only a primary school certificate and 1,210 had secondary school leaving certificates. The official languages are Catalan and Spanish . The Catalan dialect spoken on the island is known as Mallorquí.

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