Genal Valley is home to 15 municipalities spread across chestnut, pine and holm oak forests. After suffering the rural exodus in the middle of the last century, the downward trend does not stop.
There are barely 7,600 people left, more than a thousand fewer—15%—than 20 years ago. With the capital in flux and the coast immersed in accelerated growth, in the Genal Valley no one is very clear about how to gain neighbors or how to retain those who remain.