Ojos Negros is a municipality located in the province of Teruel,

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. According to the 2004

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), the municipality has a population of 531 inhabitants. It is a

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town located close to

Sierra Menera Sierra Menera is a long mountain range in the southwestern end of the Iberian System. Administratively the Sierra Menera belongs to the Sierra de Albarracín, Jiloca and Comunidad de Teruel, comarcas of Aragon, as well as to the Province of Gu ...

, a range much scarred by

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, part of the mountainous

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area. Unemployment hit Ojos Negros hard when mining activity in the nearby mountains ceased. Its population went from 3000 in the 20th century to 560 in 2010. During the Sierra Menera company mining times, between 1900 and 1987, most of the population lived in the ''Barrio Minero'' town closer to the mines. Now only about 40 people live there.Luis Diego Arribas, ''Contemporary Art and Opencast Mining'', Revista de Humanidades, University of Zaragoza. 2009 The town is located at the start of the Ojos Negros Greenway, which follows the route of the original mining railway to the town of

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in the

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Municipalities in the Province of Teruel {{Teruel-geo-stub

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