Alagón del Río

Alagón del Río is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2013 census , the municipality has a population of 889 inhabitants. Alagón del Río became independent from Galisteo in November 2009.Alagón del Caudillo was created as a settlement village, mainly to accommodate the population of Granadilla and Martinebrón which, with the construction of the Gabriel y Galán reservoir would be buried under the waters. However, over time, people from different origins began to settle here. Next to Alagón, other colonisation settlements were built, such as Valrío, El Batán, Puebla de Argeme and Rincón del Obispo. On 18 March 1955, the Decree of the General Colonisation Plan for the Gabriel y Galán irrigation area was approved and published in the Official State Gazette on 16 April. The National Colonisation Institute was responsible for drawing up the colonisation plan in accordance with the law. The necessary infrastructure works were then started. The village was planned in 1957 by the architect José Subirana Rodríguez.

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