Plou, Aragon

Municipality in Aragon, Spain

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40°59′31″N 0°51′11″W / 40.992°N 0.853°W / 40.992; -0.853CountrySpainAutonomous communityAragonProvinceTeruelArea

• Total17.33 km² (6.69 sq mi)Population

(2018)^[1]

• Total43Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Plou is a municipality located in the Province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 49 inhabitants.

The extinct plant genus Ploufolia was discovered in and named after the municipality.^[2]

Plou is also a common surname in the small community.^[3]

As of 2021, the town had 50 registered residents but only 24 year-round residents, including two school age children who travel to Montalbán for school. The town declined in the 1960s with the closing a mining railway from Utrillas to Zaragoza, and more emigration to larger cities, mainly Zaragoza and Barcelona.^[4]

References

^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
^ "Investigadores de Zaragoza hallan fósiles de plantas de hace 100 millones de años" [Zaragoza researchers find plant fossils from 100 million years ago]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 2010-06-01.
^ (21 August 2018). Plou: un pueblo devoto de escaso censo y gran corazón, Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish)
^ Perez, Pedro (24 May 2021). Plou reclama que haya un transporte público para dar servicio a los mayores, Diario de Teruel (in Spanish)