Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0Mountain hamlet
Plou is a municipality located in the Province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 49 inhabitants.
The extinct plant genus Ploufolia was discovered in and named after the municipality.
Plou is also a common surname in the small community.
As of 2021, the town had 50 registered residents but only 24 year-round residents, including two school age children who travel to Montalbán for school. The town declined in the 1960s with the closing a mining railway from Utrillas to Zaragoza, and more emigration to larger cities, mainly Zaragoza and Barcelona.
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