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LA ESTRADA

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 801 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ESTRADA  , a
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town of north-western Spain, in the province of
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Pontevedra, 15 M . S. by E. of Santiago de Compostela . Pop . (1900) 23,916 . La
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Estrada is the chief town of a densely-populated mountainous
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district; its
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industries are agriculture, stock-breeding, and the manufacture of
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linen and woollen
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cloth .
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Timber from the mountain forests is conveyed from La Estrada to the
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river Ulla, 4 M . N., and thence floated down to the sea-ports on Arosa
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Bay . The nearest railway-station is Requeijo, 7 M . W., on the Pontevedra-Santiago railway . There are
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mineral springs at La Estrada and at Caldas de Reyes, 11 m . W.S.W .

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