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The drained lagoon of Conquezuela

Miño de Medinaceli, Tierra de Medinaceli, Soria

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The drained lagoon of Conquezuela

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Miño de Medinaceli

Image of Miño de Medinaceli, not of the place itself.

This karst wetland, famous for producing quality leeches for medical bleedings, was drained in the fifties by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización to gain arable land and to combat malaria.

Photo: PePeEfe (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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