Larrosa is an unpopulated settlement and a former municipality of

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, belonging to the present

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, in the

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Geography

Larrosa is located at the head of the valley of the Ijuez river, a tributary of the

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, in the valley of the Garcipollera, like Acín, Villanovilla, Bescós de Garcipollera and Yosa de Garcipollera.

History

The houses and fields of the municipality of Larrosa were expropriated in the 1960s, due to the construction of the

Yesa Reservoir The Yesa Reservoir is located in the Pyrenees, and is formed with the damming of the Aragon River, in the Navarre town of Yesa (Spain), although the largest area of the reservoir is located in the province of Zaragoza, extending from east to west. ...

, in order to use their forests for planting

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to prevent the rapid silting of the new reservoir by the

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carried by the rains. The church dedicated to San Bartolomé has well preserved its Romanesque structure.

Demography

Locality

Demographic data of the town of Larrosa since 1900: * It has not been included in the Nomenclature since 1970. * Data refer to the ''de jure''

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Former municipality

Demographic data of the municipality of Larrosa since 1842:Alteraciones de los municipios en los Censos de Población desde 1842. INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España
(in Spanish) * Between the 1857 Census and the previous one, this municipality disappears because it is integrated into the municipality of Villanovilla. * Data refer to the ''de jure'' population, except in the 1857 and 1860 Censuses, which refer to the ''de facto'' population.

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