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El Cogul

el Cogul, Garrigues, Lleida

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El Cogul

Village · el Cogul, Garrigues, Lleida

El Cogul is a municipality in the comarca of Les Garrigues, in the province of Lleida, on the border with the Segrià, famous for the cave paintings of the Roca dels Moros, discovered in 1908 and around 10,000 years old. In them Levantine art coexists, with figures of men, dancing women and hunting scenes of the Epipalaeolithic hunter groups, and Schematic art, with abstract lines and signs of the later producer groups, as well as Iberian and Latin inscriptions. Together with other sanctuaries in the province, such as those of Bellver de Cerdanya, Os de Balaguer or Artesa de Segre, it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998 under the designation Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. It has 163 inhabitants (INE 2025).

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