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Navianos de Alba, Spain
Igrexa de Navianos de Alba.jpg
Country  Spain
Autonomous community  Castile and León
Province  Zamora
Comarca Tierra de Alba
Mancomunidad Tierra de Tábara
Town hall Olmillos de Castro
Population
 (2020)
 • Total 18
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Navianos de Alba is a village located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2020 census (INE), the village had a population of 18 inhabitants. The postal code of the place is 49146.

Busto a Manuel Blanco en Navianos de Alba su pueblo natal
Bust of Manuel Blanco in Navianos de Alba, his hometown.

Town hall

Olmillos de Castro is home to the town hall of 4 villages:

Manuel Blanco

It is the hometown of Manuel Blanco Ramos, one of the most important Spanish scientists of the 19th century.

Born in 1779, son of the navianos peasants Pedro Blanco and Petronila Ramos, this Augustinian father was a missionary in the Philippines with botanical discoveries that have gone down in the history of biology. He died in Manila in 1845 he was the author of the work Flora de Filipinas.

The scientist Carl Ludwig Blume dedicated him by placing his surname in the genus Blancoa of the Palmae family. John Lindley named the Blancoa canescens of the Haemodoraceae family with his surname.

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