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LONG-LOTS IN THE RIO ARRIBA∗

1975; American Association of Geographers; Volume: 65; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1467-8306.1975.tb01017.x

1467-8306

Alvar W. Carlson,

Latin American and Latino Studies

ABSTRACT The partitioning of land into long-lot fields was an integral part of the Spanish-American land system of New Mexico's upper Rio Grande Valley, the Rio Arriba. Largely Introduced with colony grants, this field pattern accommodated a frontier agricultural population in a semiarid region where floodplans contained limited irrigable cropland. Long lots provided settlers with stream or ditch frontage. The Rio Arriba remained the homeland of the Spanish-Americans, but the land system which had been flexible enough to allow adaptation to the environment and population growth for many years had outlived its practicality by the late 1800s.