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Irrigated landscape of the Canal d'Urgell

Bellvís, Pla d'Urgell, Lleida

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Irrigated landscape of the Canal d'Urgell

Nature · Bellvís, Pla d'Urgell, Lleida

An irrigated agricultural landscape created by the Canal d'Urgell on the plain of the Pla d'Urgell, around Bellvís. The canal was built between 1847 and 1861 and was inaugurated in March 1862, when the Tarassó estate was irrigated for the first time. It rises in the river Segre, downstream from Ponts, and ends in the same river in the municipality of Montoliu de Lleida, after running 144.2 kilometres and crossing the comarques of l'Urgell, the Pla d'Urgell, la Noguera, the Segrià and les Garrigues. It irrigates about 70,000 hectares spread across nearly 49,500 farms, and its most notable work is the Montclar tunnel, almost 4,917 metres long in a straight line, built by about 6,000 workers.

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