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Séquia Reial del Xúquer

Antella, La Ribera Alta, Valencia

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Séquia Reial del Xúquer

Historical milestone · Antella, La Ribera Alta, Valencia

A canal that draws its water from the Xúquer at the assut d'Antella and which, over a course of 54 kilometres, irrigates more than twenty thousand hectares and sustains twenty-one settlements in the comarcas of the Ribera Alta, the Ribera Baixa and l'Horta Sud, discharging into the séquia de Favara; it was the main artery of the Xúquer until the recent construction of the Xúquer-Túria canal. Its construction, begun in the second half of the 13th century under James I, first carried water to the municipal area of Alzira; between 1770 and 1815 it was extended, at the request of the Aragonese nobleman Pedro de Alcántara Fernández de Híjar, Duke of Híjar and Lord of Sollana, as far as the municipality of Albal, which doubled the irrigable area. The name Séquia Reial was adopted in the 18th century; before that it was known as Séquia d'Alberic and Séquia Reial d'Alzira.

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Photo: Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez (Qoan) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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