THE ACEQUIA GORDA OF THE GENIL RIVER IN GRANADA: THE NEED FOR URBAN INTEGRATION OF A MILLENARIAN INFRASTRUCTURE

Abstract

The irrigation communities are watering organizations with extensive experience and efficiency managing water resources. This is the reason why they have remained virtually unaltered along the centuries and they have been taken as a model in many countries which have a similar climatology to the Spanish one. In this article, a short review of one of the oldest irrigation communities in Spain, the Acequia Gorda of the Genil River, has been carried out with the purpose of showing its wide experience as well as its consequent dismantling due to an urban expansion that hasn’t known how to respect and integrate it in the city. Therefore, an important part of our heritage is being lost.

Keywords

• acequia gorda del genil
• regadíos
• patrimonio histórico
• integración urbana