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[email protected] Universidad de Murcia España García-Mayor, Clara; Canales Martínez, Gregorio Catral, de la huerta tradicional a la huerta urbanizada. La transformación del paisaje agrario en el Bajo Segura: del animus regandi al animus aedificandi Cuadernos de Turismo, núm. 39, enero-junio, 2017, pp. 191-213 Universidad de Murcia Murcia, España Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39851043009 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Cuadernos de Turismo, nº 39, (2017); pp. 633-636 Universidad de Murcia ISSN: 1139-7861 eISSN: 1989-4635 CATRAL, FROM THE TRADITIONAL HUERTA TO THE URBANISED HUERTA. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BAJO SEGURA AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE: FROM ANIMUS REGANDI TO ANIMUS AEDIFICANDI Clara García-Mayor Gregorio Canales Martínez Universidad de Alicante
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[email protected] The Bajo Segura county extents the meridional area of Alicante province in Spain. Its name is related to the Segura River, the main water course that flows crossing this territory and enabled the development of an intensive irrigated agriculture: the Huerta of Orihuela. This area was a very fruitful agriculture-based economy until the middle of the 20th century, after which it was transformed, following a shift in the economic model that encouraged the development of sun-and-beach tourism on traditional agricultural land. This is particularly the case of Catral, where the chronic lack of water added to the decline of agriculture both of which left this municipality in deep recession.