Talk:Río de Oro
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Inaccuracy The Free Zone is not uninhabited (e.g. Tifariti.) Please stop saying it is. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 04:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
According to Barbara Tuchman's "The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914" (p. 115 of the Bantam paperback edition), the Rio de Oro had a penal colony that served as "the Spanish Devil's Island." Someone with knowledge should put this into the article with details.