Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p El Ballestero is a municipality in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain 68 km to the west of Albacete.It is a little town in La Mancha which was established around a crossroads on the main road between Munera and Robledo.Like in many of the small towns in La Mancha, El Ballestero suffered a large population drain in the middle of the last century. In the 1949 population census, El Ballestero had 1,858 inhabitants but for the next few decades the population shrank — the peak emigration year being 1964, when over 500 left. The emigrants largely migrated to big cities and the coast where opportunities for work had increased as a result of the growing tourist industry. In recent years, many of these abandoned homes have been sold to people from Madrid, Valencia and other large cities who have refurbished them as second homes.[citation needed]. }
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- El_Ballestero abstract "El Ballestero is a municipality in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain 68 km to the west of Albacete.It is a little town in La Mancha which was established around a crossroads on the main road between Munera and Robledo.Like in many of the small towns in La Mancha, El Ballestero suffered a large population drain in the middle of the last century. In the 1949 population census, El Ballestero had 1,858 inhabitants but for the next few decades the population shrank — the peak emigration year being 1964, when over 500 left. The emigrants largely migrated to big cities and the coast where opportunities for work had increased as a result of the growing tourist industry. In recent years, many of these abandoned homes have been sold to people from Madrid, Valencia and other large cities who have refurbished them as second homes.[citation needed]".