Plou 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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, Spain. According to the 2004

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

( INE), the municipality has a population of 49 inhabitants. The extinct plant genus ''

Ploufolia ''Ploufolia'' is an extinct genus of plants in the order Nymphaeales. It existed in northeastern Spain during the Upper Albian period. One specimen of a species named ''Ploufolia cerciforme'' was discovered in 2010 at the Utrillas Formation, nea ...

'' was discovered in and named after the municipality. Plou is also a common surname in the small community.(21 August 2018)
Plou: un pueblo devoto de escaso censo y gran corazón
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Heraldo de Aragón ''Heraldo de Aragón'' is a regional daily newspaper published in Zaragoza, Spain. The paper has been in circulation since 1895. History and profile ''Heraldo de Aragón'' was first published on 20 September 1895. The owner is Heraldo de Aragó ...

'' (in Spanish) As of 2021, the town had 50 registered residents but only 24 year-round residents, including two school age children who travel to Montalbán for school. The town declined in the 1960s with the closing a mining railway from

Utrillas Utrillas () is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 3,209 inhabitants. Utrillas has a Secondary School called IES Fernando Lázaro Carreter. See ...

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, and more emigration to larger cities, mainly Zaragoza and

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.Perez, Pedro (24 May 2021)
Plou reclama que haya un transporte público para dar servicio a los mayores
''Diario de Teruel'' (in Spanish)

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