Azud de Vila-Real

Class: pre-industrial element

Type: weir

Municipality: Vila-real

Basin: JÚCAR

watershed: RIO MIJARES

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Conservation status: good

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Access: walking

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Longitude: -0.11910583823919298

Latitude: 39.96143310796469

Projected UTM zone: 30

SRID code: 25830

Projected UTM (x): 746068.9

Projected UTM (y): 4427451.8

Date

Type of date: year

Year: 1307

The 5 closest

Pont del Termet (bridge): 66 m

Fuente del Pastoret d'Ortells. (water source): 284 m

Piscina municipal el Termet (swamp): 336 m

Pozo ornamental de la Virgen de Gracia (water well): 355 m

Área recreativa El Termet (recreation area): 372 m

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Castelló/Almassora New Weir : 3.389 km

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Azud de Vila-Real

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Description

Millars water distribution area, for Vila-real, Burriana, Almassora and Castelló irrigators. It is the main element of the hydraulic architecture of the Community, the starting point of the entire complex system of ditches and brazales that complete the necessary infrastructure for the movement of water throughout the garden. Its function is to raise the water to ensure the feeding of the Acequia. It is located on the right bank of the Mijares river some two hundred meters above the Hermitage of the Virgen de Gracia, and at a level slightly higher than 50 meters. It is built with ashlar masonry and mortar in a narrowing of the river just at the beginning of the meander and taking advantage of its concave part. The dam or Azud, properly speaking, consists of three walls intertwined by large buttresses that fragment a possible large arch. Located near or rather under the Termet bridge. A beautiful place and at the same time dangerous, since there are strong currents and they can put more than one person in trouble, if they decide to swim in this area.<img src="https://www.regvila.com/uploads/paginas/093355_assut1-rd.jpg" alt="El Assut"> History The first weirs are of Roman origin, but it was the Arabs and their settlement who promoted this type of work. The first written documentation dates back to 1307, when it was then a weir made of wood and logs.In 1468 the municipal council agreed to build the first weir of mortar and ashlars in part and the rest continued to be made of logs and wood.After a great flood, it was built on a new floor, probably already then entirely made of stone.New works in 1581 being the predecessor of the current one. Current Weir On June 10, 1886, construction work began on the new dam, which was completed in 1895, giving it the shape and appearance it has today; The dam is made of carved masonry and is 106 meters long.During the 20th century, an important reconstruction was carried out in 1929.Splitters. As a result of the Arbitral Sentence of 1347, which distributed the amount of water from the river in rows for the four towns of La Plana, the point of division and calculation was set at the Vila-real Dam. Mined ditch The continuous flooding of the river caused the bed of the old ditch -which circulated along the river (séquia de les Argamasses)- to be covered and destroyed by the materials of the avenues, which is why in 1869 another route was planned -which crosses the Termet area underground- and that at the time, as is easy to think, was a major project in which the entire population participated.

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