Bouches-de-l'Èbre

Bouches-de-l'Èbre (French: [buʃ.də.lɛbʁ]; "Mouths of the Ebro") Catalan: Boques de l'Ebre), was a short-lived department of the First French Empire in present-day Spain.

It was created on 26 January 1812 on Catalonia's annexation by the French Empire.

[1] It incorporated Catalan territories of the Ebre basin and the municipalities of Fraga and Mequinenza.

Its prefecture was in Lleida and its subprefectures were Tortosa, Cervera and Tarragona; its only prefect was Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemont,[2] who had previously been auditor to the Council of State and sub prefect of Zierickzée (a subprefecture of the department of Bouches-de-l'Escaut).

On 7 March 1813 this department was merged with that of Montserrat to form the department of Montserrat-et-Bouches-de-l'Èbre (though the civil administration of the area was suppressed and replaced by a military government).