The British Mining Era

The 1873 sale of Riotinto to a British consortium; Tharsis already under British control; railways laid from the pits to the port of Huelva; company towns replace village labour and depopulate the Andévalo.

Part of Andévalo

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1. 1916 — "de Casa" added — 1916 nomenclature reform. The 1916 reform of Spanish municipal nomenclature — the one that disambiguated the dozens of "Santa Bárbara" and "Villanueva" entries on the national rolls — extends this village's name to Santa Bárbara de Casa. "Casa" likely refers to the casas (homesteads) that had named the larger of the two original hamlets.