Navianos de Alba


Navianos de Alba is a village located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2020 census, the village had a population of 18 inhabitants. The postal code of the place is 49146.
Image:Busto a Manuel Blanco en Navianos de Alba su pueblo natal.jpg|right|thumb|Bust of Manuel Blanco in Navianos de Alba, his hometown.

Town hall

Olmillos de Castro is home to the town hall of 4 villages:
  • San Martín de Tábara.
  • Olmillos de Castro.
  • Marquiz de Alba.
  • Navianos de Alba.

    Manuel Blanco

It is the hometown of Manuel Blanco Ramos, one of the most important Spanish scientists of the 19th century.
Born in 1779, son of the navianos peasants Pedro Blanco and Petronila Ramos, this Augustinian father was a missionary in the Philippines with botanical discoveries that have gone down in the history of biology. He died in Manila in 1845. He was the author of the work Flora de Filipinas.
The scientist Carl Ludwig Blume dedicated him by placing his surname in the genus Blancoa of the Palmae family. John Lindley named the Blancoa canescens of the Haemodoraceae family with his surname.