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The salt-works exploitation of the lagoon

Salinas, L'Alt Vinalopó, Alicante

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The salt-works exploitation of the lagoon

Historical milestone · Salinas, L'Alt Vinalopó, Alicante

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The endorheic lagoon was worked for centuries as a saltworks: the water was left to evaporate in beds and the salt was loaded onto carts towards the inland towns. The exploitation gave the municipality its name and declined in the twentieth century, when the wetland came to be protected.

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Photo: Emilio J. Rodríguez Posada (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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