About Region of Murcia

Region of Murcia is located in the southeastern of Spain, between Andalusia (west), Castilia-La Mancha (North), Valencia (East) and Mediterranean Sea (South).
The city of Murcia is the capital of the Region. Other major cities are: Cartagena, Lorca, Caravaca de la Cruz, Jumilla, Yecla, Bullas, Mazarrón, Aguilas ...

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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.

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