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I think people overestimates how "remote" those "ghost villages" are. They are very small settlements (the article mentions six houses) which may be a few hundred meters from the next inhabited place. It's likely that there are at least ten thousand people living in a 10 miles radius. (I'm refering to the regions that the article talks about, population is much more sparse in other regions in Spain.)

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That's a bit of a strech. You can definitely be 50km away of everything in Galicia, and probably way more in Castilla. It's true that population is more dispersed in the northwest though.

I don't say that there are thousands of people around any random point, I meant that I would be really surprised if any of the places being talked about in the article is really isolated.

It also depends on your definition of being "50km away from everything". What place are you thinking of?

Indeed. Spain is the size of California, so that may give some perspective...

indeed. it's California + 80,000 KM^2 (i.e. about 20% bigger than California)

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