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San Rafael del Río, in the Baix Maestrat, is a very young municipality: until the mid-19th century it was a farmstead and it did not become independent of Traiguera until 1927.
In 1234 James I founded Traiguera, of which San Rafael was part, and the following year he gave it to the Hospitallers. In the mid-19th century San Rafael was still a simple farmstead; from then on oil production grew until twenty mills were working. On 28 November 1927 it became a municipality independent of Traiguera.
Text written by Zona Zero TV from public sources; early dates vary between authors. Sources: San Rafael del Río (Hispanopedia, basado en Wikipedia, CC BY-SA). Checked on 2/11/2026.
