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(File:Sant Pere de Tor.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1|Sant Pere de Tor church in Tor)Tor is a village within the Alins municipality of the Pallars Sobirà in Catalonia, Spain. Its municipal boundary borders with Andorra close to the spot in La Massana parish where the Vallnord ski resort complex, formed by Pal and Arinsal, is located.This small village had only 25 inhabitants in 2005.Instituto Nacional de Estadística {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716050026weblink |date=2006-07-16 }} It is located in the Pyrenees, close to the Port de Cabús mountain pass at an altitude of {{convert|2,301|m}}.Tor was formerly a place where much tobacco product cross-border smuggling took place. Recently{{when|date=May 2018}}, during the Spanish real estate bubble Tor also became notorious for a local conflict about the ownership of a particular mountain within its municipal boundary, close to the Andorra border. This conflict triggered greed among local families and became the cause of three murders,WEB,weblink Tor: La muntanya Maleïda (Tor, the accursed mountain), 2011-04-25, 2012-04-05,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120405052248weblink">weblink live, following which a book Tor: tretze cases i tres morts (Tor: thirteen houses and three dead), by Carles Porta, was published.WEB,weblink Book review in La Vanguardia, 2011-04-25, 2007-11-06,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071106171609weblink">weblink dead,

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External links

• Pallars Sobirà Official website
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110504053207weblink">Pallars Sobirà Tourism
• IDESCAT: Pallars Sobirà
• Alins website

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