Ojos Negros is a municipality located in the

province of Teruel Teruel ( Catalan: ''Terol'' ) is a province of Aragon, in the northeast of Spain. The capital is Teruel. It is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Castellón, Valencia (including its exclave Rincón de Ademuz), Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Z ...

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. According to the 2004

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

mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...

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 G ...

, a range much scarred by

open-pit mining Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock (geology), rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially ...

, part of the

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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

Puerto de Sagunto Puerto de Sagunto (Spanish name; ) is a Spanish locality pertaining to Sagunto (Valencian Community, Spain), which is located at the mouth of the Palancia river and in the north of the province of Valencia. It is the largest urban nucleus in Camp ...

in the

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Information about Ojos NegrosVía verde Ojos Negros
Municipalities in the Province of Teruel {{Teruel-geo-stub

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