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ESTRADA, LA, a town of north-western Spain, province of Pontevedra, 7 m. E. of Requeijo, its nearest station, on the Ponte vedra-Santiago railway. Pop. (193o) 26,623. La Estrada is the chief town of a populous mountain district, producing maize, wheat, barley, potatoes, fruit, cattle and pigs. Leather and linen paper are manufactured in the town, and lumber from the moun tain forests is floated down the river Ulla, 4 m. N., to the seaports on Arosa bay. There are mineral springs at La Estrada and at Caldas de Reyes, II m. W.S.W.