Las palerías del valle del río Záncara en las postrimerías de la Pequeña Edad del Hielo: Prácticas de control ante la proliferación de áreas pantanosas insalubres en el Centro Peninsular

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Jiménez, Isabel Prieto Hijano, Concepción Fidalgo Martín, Juan Antonio González
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The last centuries of the Little Ice Age (1700-1900) led to a huge advance of flooded areas in the fluvial and endorheic basins of the Spanish peninsular center. This increase in the area of marshland appears to have had its origin in a combination of natural processes and anthropogenic activities. The former are related to considerable irregularities in annual rainfall as very dry years alternated with others of great humidity. The latterhave to do with human usage of soil and water. As a means of mitigating the general situation, countless works were undertaken to clear river beds and irrigation and mill ditches. These works, as well as the drying of wetlands, were carried out by wetland drainers known as paleros , an ancient profession which became remarkably important in some river basins of the region of La Mancha, such as the Zancara River, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Starting Page	553
Ending Page	573
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.3989/estgeogr.201417
Volume Number	75
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeograficos/article/download/435/435
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.3989/estgeogr.201417
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article