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Malaria and the rice ban

Las Torres de Cotillas, Vega Media del Segura, Murcia

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Malaria and the rice ban

Historical milestone · Las Torres de Cotillas, Vega Media del Segura, Murcia

Image of Las Torres de Cotillas, not of the place itself.

The fevers associated with the waterlogged rice fields decimated the vega: the population of Cotillas was reduced to barely twenty-five inhabitants in 1719. A royal order banned the cultivation of rice the following year and opened the way to the slow demographic recovery of the comarca.

1719-1720

Photo: Jochosillo18 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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