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A geographically specific view of Rafal and its surrounding landscape
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Rafal

Rafal developed from an Arabic-named rural estate into an independent seventeenth-century marquisate whose compact streets remain surrounded by huerta.

A rural estate becomes a town

A marquisate measured in streets and fields

Rafal developed from an Arabic-named rural estate into an independent seventeenth-century marquisate whose compact streets remain surrounded by huerta.

How Jerónimo de Rocamora, the parish of Nuestra Señora del Rosario and working small fields explain one of the Vega Baja's smallest terms.

Fast facts

INE padrón, 1 Jan 2025

Population
4,849
Change since 2015
+16%

4,167 in 2015

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