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Underground navigable canal of Orbó

Barruelo de Santullán, Montaña Palentina, Palencia

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Underground navigable canal of Orbó

Curiosity · Barruelo de Santullán, Montaña Palentina, Palencia

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Beneath the settlement of Vallejo de Orbó runs more than two kilometres of underground canal, unique in Spain, which served at once to ventilate the galleries, drain the water and transport the coal in barges.

Photo: MiguelAlanCS (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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