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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 1996. The length of the article is 3222 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Keywords: abandonment, Catalonia, depopulation, Pyrenees.

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Title: The solitude of Solanell. (town near the Catalan city of La Seu d'Urgel, Spain)
Author: W. George Lovell
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v86Issue: n2Page: p259(11)

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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on December 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3843 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The present research is designed to contribute to our knowledge of the influence of geography on the genetic population structure in the Sierra de Gredos (central Spain). This mountain range separates two distinct areas: the Tormes-Alberche valley in the north and the Tietar valley in the south. Unrelated blood donors (226), whose 4 grandparents were born in the study area, were tested for blood group markers (A1A2BO, RH, MNSs, Kell, P, and Lewis). R matrix analysis in relation to other Spanish populations agrees reasonably well with the cluster analysis of the Prevosti distance matrix using the UPGMA algorithm. Comparisons suggest a certain degree of genetic variation between the populations of these two valleys. The Sierra de Gredos can thus be considered a biological barrier limiting the gene flow between the valleys.

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Title: Blood group polymorphisms and geography in the Sierra de Gredos, Spain.
Author: M.S. Mesa
Publication: Human Biology (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1994
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Volume: v66Issue: n6Page: p1005(15)

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Although Cortés conquered the Aztec empire in 1521, imperial Spain knew little about the Mexican territory under its control when Philip II acceded to the throne in 1556. As part of a vast project to learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey--the Relaciones Geográficas--of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. Offering the most complete contemporary record of what sixteenth-century Mexico looked like, the sixty-nine manuscript maps from this survey also highlight the gulf between colonial and indigenous conceptions of Mexico.

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Title: Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America.(Book Review)
Author: Karl W. Butzer
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Title: Nueva economía y nueva geografía para España.(TT: New economy and geography for Spain.)
Author: Juan Velarde
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Date: December 17, 2000
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Southern Spain, painted by Trevor Haddon (1908)


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