Turbid water irrigation and assisted dry-land in the southeast of Spain. The Guadalupe damn system or derivation damn in the watercourse of El Zoco (Murcia)

Authors

  • Encarna Gil Meseguer Universidad de Murcia
  • José Antonio López Fernández Universidad de Córdoba
  • José María Gómez Espín Universidad de Murcia
Keywords: Flood diversion dam, irrigation boquera, irrigation with muddy water, dryland attended

Abstract

In Southeast Spain there are a number of uses of turbid water runoff intermittent watercourse type channels that have enabled the development of dryland agricultural areas of assisted. Thus in the Rambla del Cabezo White or souk (between Murcia districts of Guadalupe and Espinardo), a hydraulic system consisting of a diversion dam flood and two sores that started with each of its ends is to organize the distribution water in its alluvial fan (boquera irrigation, land alfait), transformed into dry space devoted in the last twenty centuries, growing olives.

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Gil Meseguer, E., López Fernández, J. A., & Gómez Espín, J. M. (2015). Turbid water irrigation and assisted dry-land in the southeast of Spain. The Guadalupe damn system or derivation damn in the watercourse of El Zoco (Murcia). Murcian Journal of Anthropology, (22), 161–176. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/rmu/article/view/242301