The demographic pressure experienced from the 16th century onwards in the north of the peninsula led to a change in agricultural behaviour, more based on collective communal lands than on direct exploitation. The agrarian reality in Asturias seems to indicate that they turned their backs on the sea and focused on inland lands, establishing a more dispersed agrarian economy that led to a marked increase in population, but with a notable temporal and, above all, territorial diversity.
As can be seen in the resource, between 1528 and 1827 there was a notable demographic increase in all the Asturian councils analysed, although with some setbacks such as those experienced in Proaza in 1591 or the even greater one recorded in Grado in 1631. The diversity of territorial behaviour is very present, with the mountain areas showing higher levels of growth than the valleys and coastal areas. On the other hand, from 1631 onwards, the interior continued with its growth rates, but it was the coastal areas and the nearby valleys that considerably increased the rate of growth.

Collection: Statistics

Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.

Chronology: XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University, Postgraduate

Link: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/4746

Resource type: Statistics

Format: Table

Source: Barreiro, B. (1997). "Montes comunales y vida campesina en las regiones cantábricas", en Studia historica. Historia moderna, nº 16, p. 30.

Language: Spanish

Date: 1997

Owner: Roberto José Alcalde López (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Studia historica. Historia moderna ©Baudilio Barreiro Mallón

Abstract: Table showing the growth rates of various Cantabrian regions with base 100 in 1528 and showing the data collected up to 1827

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