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Construction of the Cecebre reservoir

Abegondo, Coruña, A Coruña

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Construction of the Cecebre reservoir

Historical milestone · Abegondo, Coruña, A Coruña

Image of Abegondo, not of the place itself.

The dam on the Mero and Barcés rivers was built between 1975 and 1976 to supply water to A Coruña, flooding 275 hectares of floodplain; the resulting wetland is today a special area of conservation and a refuge for migratory birds. The land needed for the work was acquired between 1974 and 1976 by the municipality of A Coruña, the current owner of the area. On the island left by the reservoir, at Orto, there is also a fortified hilltop castro, rediscovered in 2017, oval in plan and with two defensive lines, today overgrown with eucalyptus and accessible only by boat.

1974-1976

Photo: Miguel Branco (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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