Livestock farming is of little importance.

 It is September. Let us embrace the end of the summer and head towards the merely warm - especially as we are heading south.   First thing we do is cross the El Barranquet - which has an odd sort of crossing - so I have put a picture in.  I have failed to find anything out about the rio.



We are edging round a pueblo whose entire English wiki page is

Rafelguaraf (Valencian pronunciation: [raˌfɛlɣwaˈɾaf]) is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera Alta in the Valencian Community, Spain.[2]


The Spanish version is a bit more forthcoming, but not much.  I quote ‘Little information remains of its history. It is known that an armed confrontation took place nearby between the Germanados of Xátiva, led by Jorge Pérez Delgado de Molina, and the troops of the Viceroy of Valencia . It was the domain of the Count of Cirat , who built  a manor house there in the 16th century.’


I love the translation software.  Maybe the writer was world weary.  Either Way it says of the Economy:

‘In the cultivated area, irrigated crops predominate, with oranges , corn , vegetables , and, until recently, rice. In dry land, the only crops worth mentioning are the olive trees .

Livestock farming is of little importance.

The industrial sector is limited to the production of wicker and yarn objects , but in such small proportions that they are insufficient to capture all the available labor force, with some emigration to other industrial areas being recorded.’



In 1842 about 300 people lived here.  The populace doubled between 1860 and 1877 - to 1000. Doubled again to about 2000 in 1940 and has mooched around the 2300 level since.


Use this knowledge wisely as we plod on.












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