The Perspective of Water: the Great Waterwheel from Above
From that perspective we can see how water can be elevate to irrigate orchards.(Click to enlarge image. You can also see the Segura river and a rafting boat plenty of people. Did you find it? Leave in comments). Some data from that waterwheel (a previous post with som information also): as comented, it was uilt in 1805 and is the largest waterwheel still in use in Europe. Diameter: 11.92 meters. Capacity: Pumps an average of 25 to 32 liters of water per second. Reach: Supplies approximately 7 kilometers of secondary canals, irrigating around 155 tahúllas (a local unit of land measurement equivalent to 180K square meters) dedicated primarily to stone fruit, citrus, and vegetables. Structure: Features 32 spokes (16 per ring), 64 flat blades to capture the force of the current, and a total of 128 buckets for collecting and pumping the water.
