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Las gavias, agricultura en tierra árida

Antigua, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas

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Las gavias, agricultura en tierra árida

Curiosity · Antigua, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas

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The gavia is a pre-Hispanic farming system that survived the conquest and is found only on Fuerteventura and Lanzarote: plots enclosed by earth walls ("trastones") that hold back run-off water and the silt carried by floods, making it possible to grow cereals and legumes in a territory with almost no rainfall. The municipality of Antigua, around settlements such as Casillas de Morales, preserves good examples of this agricultural landscape.

Photo: Tee Cee from Cheshire, UK (CC BY 2.0)

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