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Reservoir of el Cenajo en Férez

Férez, Sierra del Segura, Albacete

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Reservoir of el Cenajo en Férez

Nature · Férez, Sierra del Segura, Albacete

Image of Férez, not of the place itself.

The Embalse del Cenajo, the largest of those formed by the río Segura, bathes with its southern end the municipality of Férez, shared with those of Hellín and Socovos, while the dam itself lies in neighbouring Moratalla. It was built between 1943 and 1952 as part of Francoist hydraulic works policy aimed at curbing the historic floods of the Segura, with a total of 7,700 workers, among them political and common prisoners from the jails of Hellín and Las Minas assigned to the riskiest tasks. To house them, a workers' settlement was built in 1947 with a wash house, chapel, barracks and shops. The construction of the reservoir flooded the only village in Férez, Alcantarilla de Jover, whose population dispersed.

Photo: Alesper33 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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