BARCELONA

GEOGRAPHY
Is on a plain bordered by two rivers: the Llobregat in the south and the Besòs in the north.
Barcelona has a surface area of 100.4 square kilometres, forming part of the Barcelonès County, along with Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Badalona and Sant Adrià to the north, and Hospitalet de Llobregat along the southern border of the city.
The climate in Barcelona is typically Mediterranean. Summers are hot and humid, winters mild, and most of the rainfall is in spring and autumn.

CITY DISTRIBUTION
Barcelona, with a population census of 1,605,602 on 1st of January, 2006.
The ten city districts are Ciutat Vella, Eixample, Sants-Montjuïc, Les Corts, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Gràcia, Horta-Guinardó, Nou Barris, Sant Andreu and Sant Martí.
This division of the city has its roots based on the history of the city. Ciutat Vella is the old centre of the city and the Eixample is where the city expanded after the city walls were knocked down. The other districts correspond to municipal areas which were around the old city, outside the walls, and which became part of Barcelona during the 19th and 20th centuries.

LANGUAGES
Catalan is the official language of Catalonia, according to the Statute of Catalonia and the Spanish Constitution, together with Castilian, the official language of Spain.

THE CREATION OF BARCELONA

The area of Barcelona was created on pre-Roman times. The name of this Roman City was BARCINO.

THE URBAN ENVIROMENT

There are more artificial objects in this enviroment. There are buildings and a lot of cars whicth produce a lot of pollution. And this is the main cause of global warming. One example for this enviroment are the cities.

THE RURAL ENVIROMENT

The rural enviroment is the landscape that have domestic animals, the plants for eat. This landscape have artificial objects. But the human tecnologi transfors this enviroment into urban enviroment, because there are more factories. One example from this enviroment is a farm.

THE NATURAL ENVIROMENT

The natural enviroment is the landscape that have animals and plants. This landscape don't have artificial objects. But the human tecnology is destroing this landscape. The natural parcks are preserving the natural wild life. There are more natural landscapes. For example:
*the desert *the jungle *the sea *the forest

The humans destroy the Earth

The world and most of its plants were here long before us. Humans with their culture and technology have a deep impact on the natural landscape. Unfortunetly this impact has destroyed, many plants and animals. Some plants and animals longen exist due to a large to human impact. If people don't become more effective envivommental stewards, WE MAY BE THE NEXT EXTIVICTED.
Actually we can identified three grect enviroment:

*City or urban enviroment.

*Natural or wildlife.

*rural wildlife.