The peninsula is a Morrazo

Hilario Rodriguez Ferreiro was Professor of History at the first institute bachelor of Cangas. Professional advantage this link for analyzing the extensive Morrazo Peninsula, an area of 115 km2, with 11 456 inhabitants in 1787 m and a high population density of around 100 habitantes/km2, in which only the modest town of Cangas could be considered as the town center. The question was how many were and how our ancestors lived
1 The demographics (population discussed in figures) houno is the main factor, the engine that explains what happens in society and the economy. So if you understand and also understood publishers-that he have set aside a whole book and yet another for the graphs and statistics that become an indispensable tool. 2 In the story the facts are subject to changes over time, which is why their study included two centuries (XVII and XVIII), and sometimes up to three (XIX). 3rd Front to made unique and unrepeatable (retaliation English in Domaio during the Battle of Rande), the truly important thing is the community as a whole, all the people who lived at that time, not just the most powerful (nobles, abbots) or known. So secondly addresses the society and economy
The result is a monumental work, says Professor Pérez García, not only for its size and length, but it involves the importance for understanding the history of Galicia western Atlantic during the Modern Age or Old Regime
1. Books parishes, fundaentais to know the demographics, although the use of parish HIO as pilot for delving into the most intricate, all are represented here (Domaio, moan ...)
3. The notarial protocols: discovery of large French Annales, spread through Eiras Roel A.: wills, inventories of goods, purchase, deeds forums, etc.., A drawer where you can appear tailor everything and where all, except the very try-are represented. But as historian rigorous, houno sources subject to a thorough review to find out if we hide something, terxiversando reality (eg the Census Aranda houno lower than the actual figures, the parish priests not briefed the deaths of children under 8 years , párbulos, etc.).
Within the precariousness in which they lived in those times, our peninsula was a privileged space (it already comes from prehistory), but it was touching the ceiling houno of their possibilities. It is one of the first places in Galicia to receive the cultivation of maize (1630), perhaps by sea, perhaps through Portugal. Multiply production compared to traditional cereals (rye) and to have more to eat, the population kept growing, was a world full of people. Perhaps being surrounded by sea, get through it matches good for making bread cereal cheap either due to high domestic production, famines struck here with much less force than elsewhere in Galicia. And life expectancy in 1630 was 37, when the early twentieth century was only 40. Their lands were highly productive houno thanks to practices such as intensive polyculture of smallholdings, a good watering and fertilizing (with livestock herds dependent on the lot in common houno hand). The symptoms are exhaustion that emigration is one of the typical outputs houno of excess population (in the XVII century and even America) caused a desequilibio sex (70 men per 100 women) and this translated into definite female celibacy (20% in eighteenth century) in illegitimacy, being many natural parents noble gentlemen.
The peninsula is a Morrazo "Horst" complex, eroded and tilting the Tues Its maximum height, Lighthouse Domaio (634 m.) Is to the east. The communications in the transverse lines follow the fractures towards the meridian. The influence of climate houno and sea augación Gulf (of Mexico) acquires a typical Mediterranean notes like a sharp estiaxe in July and August. The soils are its shallow and type "rank", derived from the rock of granite that formed. In general, we note that presents positive aspects for the development of agriculture. In its habitat can see an evolution. In s. XVII, the population centers are located inside because the coast was dangerous, since the eighteenth the sea represents a wealth that attracts people.
Contrary to what had been accepted houno in the seventeenth century is shown very dynamic and it population almost doubles, otherwise the eighteenth the pace of growth moderated, increasing roughly by 22%, being higher in the first half of the century. In the nineteenth population grew 63%, compared with the modest percentage of the industrialized countries of Atlantic Europe and, in 70 years of s. XX, duplicated again.
The critical periods discovered are: the last decade of the seventeenth and eighteenth houno first, 1740 to 1754, 1764 to 1780, in the s. XIX due to spreading epidemic