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Interesting. I am reading the article using Google Translate and may have missed some nuance though. The article seems to be saying that the discrepancy is largely because most of those whose starting point was Ponferrada have been mistakenly added to the Camino Frances total by the pilgrim office. I have not walked the Invierno myself. Is it really likely that the numbers walking are nearly six times greater than the pilgrim office statistics would suggest and that this has gone unnoticed until now?What one municipality believes is the true number of Peregrinos who passed through their area on the Invierno last year in contrast to just over the 1000 who claimed compostelas.
I think even if you look at the sellos it is not so easy in many cases. (In 2018) I started in Somport... Camino Aragones, then parts of the Camino Frances, Camino de Invierno and then the last part of the Via de la Plata... if you want to press this into "one camino" for the statistic... you can never see the reality from this statistic.It makes me think that some of the volunteers in the pilgrim office do not look very closely at the sellos on the credentials or they would have realized quite a few were coming from the Inveirno...
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Hmmm, maybe, but I wonder. I met more pilgrims than I expected - not that it was a horde, but I saw between 2 and 8 people each day - looking at the actual number of people I saw over the days on the Invierno per se (between Ponferrada and A Laxe) the number of encounters averaged 2.4 per day. 1000 divided by 365 is 2.7 pilgrims per day, though of course they would not be distributed evenly over the year. But my experience is pretty close to that.Is it really likely that the numbers walking are nearly six times greater than the pilgrim office statistics would suggest and that this has gone unnoticed until now?
You always help, Tom...thoroughly!Hope this helps
Tom, for those of us walking camino mixtas, is it possible to request that your camino be credited to a particular route, regardless of where you started or how you walked into Santiago?
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