Huerta

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This article is about agriculture. For other uses, see Huerta (disambiguation).

A huerta (Spanish, from Latin hortis, "garden") is a fertile area, or a field in a fertile area, common in Spain, in which a variety of common vegetables and fruit trees, especially lemons, are cultivated for family consumption and sale. Typically, huertas belonging to different people are in groups around a river or other water source because of the amount of irrigation required.