Salinas de Rosío
BurgosCastilla y León
Descriptive compound. Salinas, from the Latin salina ('place of salt extraction'), plus de Rosío, hydronym of the eponymous river of pre-Roman filiation.
Mining-salt hamlet with continental salt exploitation documented from the 10th century. The old salt flats, in production until 1976, preserve the traditional evaporation eras.
Evolution of the name
- salinae + Rosío Latin and pre-Roman 5th–9th centuries
- Salinas de Rosío medieval Castilian from the 10th century
Glossary
- Burgalese continental salt flats
- Traditional salt exploitations by solar evaporation of subsoil brine in the Burgalese Merindades, attested from the 9th century. The Salt Flats of Poza (Sálvora), Salinas de Rosío and Salinas de Hoz produced salt to supply the northern peninsula until the 19th-century state salt monopoly. They were in continuous exploitation until the 1970s.
- Hydronym
- A place name derived from the name of a river, lake or watercourse (Carrión, Eo, Sella, Deba, Cueza).
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