Muro Dam

Muro Dam
Location Campo Maior, Portalegre District, Portugal
Opening date Roman period
Dam and spillways
Height 4.6 m
Length 174 m
Width (base) 4.2 m

The Muro Dam was a Roman dam in Portugal. Located near the eastern municipality of Campo Maior, it is the largest surviving ancient dam in the country south of the Tagus river.[1]

The 174 m long structure features three slight bends in its course. Its downstream side is supported by a series of thirteen small buttresses at intervals of 3–4 m. The central section, where the dam is highest and strongest, is further strengthened on its air-side by three vertical arches which go from buttress to buttress.[1]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Decker 1991, pp. 78–79 (no. 4)

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