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Colonization villages of the Monegros Canal

Grañén, Los Monegros, Huesca

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Colonization villages of the Monegros Canal

Historical milestone · Grañén, Los Monegros, Huesca

Image of Grañén, not of the place itself.

The Instituto Nacional de Colonización built, in the 1950s and 1960s, new settlements for the irrigation colonists. Within the municipal area of Grañén, Montesusín and Curbe were founded, with a grid layout, a church, a school, and homes with a yard and threshing floor.

1950-1970

Photo: Marcos Maté Luna (Ordunte) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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