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The draining of the Antela lagoon

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The draining of the Antela lagoon

Historical milestone · Sandiás, Limia, Ourense

Image of Sandiás, not of the place itself.

The works begun in 1956 dried out the largest lagoon in Galicia to win farmland, wiping out at a stroke an ecosystem, an economy of rushes and eels and a whole imaginary of Limia legends.

1956

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0)

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