Pervivencia o “supervivencia” de la tradición en el Guadarrama segoviano. Procesos y prácticas

Livestock farming is the predominant factor of spatial organization in the Guadarrama mountain range (Segovia), although cattle activity has been in a long decline since the 1950s. The numbers of farms and livestock have decreased and the handling of animals and land use have been simplified. A crisis occurred in the traditional system and its territorial model, and this has been replaced by a traditional-degraded spatial organization. It is the “survival” of tradition, which can also be seen in the long process of depopulation: the number of inhabitants, the size of the villages and the number of settlements have decreased, while the age of the population has increased. Thus, “survival” is conditioned by population depletion.