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Navel Foios, Alfara del Patriarca
Alfara del Patriarca, l'Horta Nord
We do not publish the cadastral reference or exact coordinates. The municipality and the partida carry the value.
The cultivar is named after the village next door
Alfara del Patriarca shares a boundary with Foios, and Foios is where this cultivar comes from. Navel Foios is the Valencian selection of Washington Navel that appeared there, and Spanish nurseries went on to propagate it almost to the exclusion of other navel clones. The trees in this block are that selection, planted in the next municipality along.
The detail has a practical edge. Because the clone is so widely planted in Spain, a buyer comparing Spanish navel is usually comparing the same genetic material grown in different places, which moves the question from cultivar to ground, water and handling. That is the argument for publishing the municipality at all.
A small term with a long written record
Alfara del Patriarca is one of the smallest municipal terms in l'Horta Nord, wedged between Moncada, Vinalesa, Foios and the northern edge of the city. It began as a Muslim alquería, was taken by Jaume I in 1249, and in 1595 was sold to Juan de Ribera, Patriarch of Antioch and Archbishop of València, whose college of Corpus Christi held the lordship afterwards. The second half of the name has stayed on ever since.
The barranc del Carraixet crosses the term from north to south. It runs dry for most of the year and drains a catchment large enough to overflow in an autumn storm, and the silt it has laid down over centuries is what the huerta here is planted in. The ground is deep, calcareous river alluvium.
No partida is declared for this planting
Four of the five plantings have no partida on record, and this is one of them. The partida is the finest public anchor we are willing to give, so where the grower has not declared one, the municipality is as close as the page gets. Inventing a plausible toponym would be easy, and it would be a lie.
The same rule covers the other empty fields on the record above. Area, tree count, rootstock, irrigation and lot prefix are unconfirmed, and they are shown as such instead of carrying a round number. Any of them can be checked and put in writing before an order is agreed.
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