Istán
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 View of Istán from the Sierra de las Nieves with the coast and Gibraltar in the background | |
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Istán is a town and municipality in the province of
Mediterranean coast. It is situated on the southern slope of the Sierra de las Nieves. It is also near the large reservoir created by the Presa de la Concepción dam, built in 1972 to provide drinking water to towns all along the Costa del Sol
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History
It was originally a
Ojen, survived where others didn't largely because it was away from the coast. After the Reconquest, Moors were not allowed to live near the coast so as to be unable to communicate easily with their kinsmen in nearby North Africa. The moorish influence can still be seen in the town, Acequia del Chorro is a water channel called an Acequia in Spanish, built by the moors that can still be seen here, they are used in the same way as the levadas in Madeira
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Twin towns and sister cities
Sources and references
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- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.