Estudio socioeconómico de la comarca del Porma

Abstract

The repercussions that the building of Vegamian Dam --toge­ther with the disappearance of seyen villages-- have had on the Porma Region, force us to the planning or framing of the possibilities of regional development, negatively affected by the dam, whose immediate effects have been the decrease of population in the region and the loss of a great number of hectares for agriculture and cattle raising: these hectares have been submerged under water. However, the region has great potential possibili­ties to be developed within the limits of the three productive sectors. Among other impotant facilities, the region has the required basis for a prosperous
cattle raising to be developed, as there exists a selected strain of bovine cattle in the region: the Swiss-Brown strain, perfectly adapted by its adaptation to the ecologic factors at regional level, considering the physical medium as well as the economic, social and human environment.
The resources in the industrial sector are specially centered in the richness of the region with regard to mineralogy and there are very impor­tant raw materials such as tale, quartz, dolomite, marble, etc.
Concerning the supply of hydraulic electric power, there will be great possibilities when the water will be available for such purpose.
Finally, in the Sector of Services there will probably be an extraor­dinary tourist increase due to the optimum conditions existing in the region
for tourism, specially concerning tourism in the winter because the Winter Sports Station, in Puerto de San Isidro, is located just in this region. Once
the initial phases of aseembling have been overcome, the Station will have great repercussions not only in the province of León, but also in all Spanish
provinces, by providing the means of correcting the seasonal character of the tourism phenomenum.
A description of the real economy of the region is made along the work, together wilh the orientating suggestions for the economic policys concer­ning the steps of the necessary regional planning in function of its necessities and its possibilities for a regional development, which are many and diverse.