Dossier #4344 · GRanD 2889
Puentes 3
🇪🇸Spain · Guadalentin River · near Lorca
Built 1791 · Modified · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★Flood control
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 62 m
- Crest length
- 362 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 29.5 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 2.7 km²
- Average depth
- 11.1 m
- Catchment
- 1,438 km²
- Avg discharge
- 1,178 L/s
- Elevation
- 449 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 79.4 %
Notes
Original dam was built in 1791 and failed in 1802; a new dam was built in 1887 and was recently refurbished
Built 1791 - Modified 1887
Provenance
Record 4344 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 37.7351, -1.8200.