Salinas de Pisuerga
PalenciaCastilla y León
Descriptive compound. Salinas, from Latin, plus de Pisuerga, pre-Roman hydronym. It designates the continental salt flats of the middle Pisuerga valley.
Town with salt-making tradition documented from the 10th century. The salt flats operated until 1957. After the closure, the town reoriented to tourism of the Palentine Mountain.
Evolution of the name
- salinae + Pisuerga Latin and pre-Roman 5th–9th centuries
- Salinas de Pisuerga medieval Castilian from the 10th century
Glossary
- Hydronym
- A place name derived from the name of a river, lake or watercourse (Carrión, Eo, Sella, Deba, Cueza).
- Pisuerga salt
- Traditional salt production by solar evaporation of subsoil brine in the middle valley of the Pisuerga river, attested from the 10th century. The Palentine salt flats (Salinas de Pisuerga, Poza de la Sal) supplied Old Castile and the Merindades for a millennium. The state salt monopoly (1564-1869) regulated its production.
- Pre-Roman
- Prior to the Romanisation of the Iberian peninsula (3rd century BC); applied to toponyms, linguistic roots and populations.
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