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Well, this surprised me. I went to look at the pilgrim office statistics on the Camino de Levante and found that there has been virtually no increase since 2012. People starting in Valencia:
2012 -- 120
2013 - 143
2014 -- 134
2105 -- 134
Then I looked at the camino-related statistics and found another surprise. The overall totals of the "other caminos" is just not moving much.
"Other caminos" are all but the Frances, Vdlp, Norte, Portugues, Primitivo, Ingles, and Muxia/Finisterre. Invierno gets its own entry as of 2014, so I added them into "others" for comparison. 2013 seems like an outlier year, wonder why.
2012 -- 873
2013 -- 444
2014 -- 586 plus Invierno 131 -- total of 717
2015 -- 359 plus Invierno 222 -- total of 581
So I guess what this suggests is that though people are flocking to caminos other than the Frances (the growth on some of those is pretty spectacular), there is a pretty small number of go-to alternatives.
Just FYI! Buen camino, Laurie
Another reason could be that Pilgrims who walk some of these other routes do not go all the way to Santiago...
Joe
Agree but OTOH I'm sure they would put in the (let's say) Valencia as a starting point even if you've walked Levante/Sanabres or Levante/VdlP/CF etc. in five years stretches. You just have to emphasize that at the counter. A lot of people (mostly Spaniards I think) do that on CF when walking a week or two every year. So what's the difference here? If you go to collect the Compostela of courseRemember that counting the startingpoints will also only count those walkers who walk the whole camino in one. My startings in Valencia and Alicante will stay invisible. In Santiago they registrate only the place where you started when you walked the part that ended in Santiago.
Probably a lot of people who once they have one certificate of completion don't bother to register again for subsequent walks once they get to Santiago. I didn't because I can reuse the pilgrims passport.
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