Laguna District
, [Span.=lake], irrigated area in E Durango and
W Coahuilas, N central Mexico. Originally a 900,000
acres/364,230 ha tract, consisting of large estates, the
land was reapportioned (1936) under President Lazaro
Cardenas and distributed to Mex. farmers under the Ejido system.
It was a successful experiment in agrarian reform until 1952, when a
severe drought scorched more than ½ the dist.,
turning 200,000 acres/80,940 ha of wheat and cotton fields
into a dust bowl and obliging the govt. to take emergency measures to
avert a famine. Settlement has continued there, but on a greatly
reduced scale; water for irrigation comes from wells and from dams on
the Nazas and Aguanaval rivers. Parts of the irrigated area have gone
out of production because of salinization of soil.
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