[< Previous 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next >]
Riaño
 Guest  2006/8/8 13:39
 3647  0  9.67 (3 votes) Rate it
Riaño is a municipality of the County of León (Spain) located to the northeast of the same one, to the feet of the Cantabrian Mountain range, to 1.148 m of altitude. It is to 91 km of the provincial capital and it has a population of 539 inhabitants (INE 2005), known by the gentile of riañeses, with an extension of 85,08 km². Density: 6,33 hab./km2.The current town is comparatively recent. The original population, old Riaño or Old Riaño, it was flooded in the decade of 1980 by the construction of a reservoir.After several intents of building a swamp throughout the XX century, finally the valley in that he/she was (in the one that the rivers converge Esla, Yuso and Retuerto) was buried by the waters in 1987. The project of construction of the swamp gave place to popular numerous mobilizations. The town was reedificado in the summit of the mountain, leaving to its feet the swamp of Riaño.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria%C3%B1o_%28Le%C3%B3n%29
It photographs digital taken by Óscar Ibáñez Fernández August 28 2005 |
|
|
[< Previous 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next >]
The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
You Photograph Towns of Spain
León
