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Reservoir of Tous

Tous, La Ribera Alta, Valencia

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Reservoir of Tous

Nature · Tous, La Ribera Alta, Valencia

The Tous reservoir holds the waters of the Júcar River and its tributary the Escalona in the municipalities of Tous and Millares, with a maximum capacity of 379 hm³. The original dam, of only 80 hm³, collapsed on the night of 20 October 1982 when the floodgates could not be opened during an extraordinary flood of the Júcar, causing the largest flood on record in Spain, with a flow of 16,000 m³/s recorded at Alzira: the so-called Pantanada de Tous. The current reservoir, with much greater capacity, was completed in 1996, and its waters supply the Júcar-Turia canal; it also serves for flood prevention and irrigation, and hydroelectric use of it is planned. It allows recreational boating and fishing for pike, carp and barbel.

Photo: Werner Wilmes (CC BY 2.0)

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