Esparragalejo Dam

Esparragalejo Dam
Location Badajoz province, Extremadura, Spain
Coordinates 38°56′55.5″N 6°26′18″W / 38.948750°N 6.43833°W / 38.948750; -6.43833Coordinates: 38°56′55.5″N 6°26′18″W / 38.948750°N 6.43833°W / 38.948750; -6.43833
Opening date 1st century
Dam and spillways
Impounds Albucia (Guadiana basin)
Height 5.6 m
Length 320.0 m
Width (base) 2.2 m

The Esparragalejo Dam was a Roman multiple arch buttress dam at Esparragalejo, Badajoz province, Extremadura, Spain. Dating to the 1st century AD, it is the earliest known dam of its kind.[1]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Schnitter 1978, p. 29; Schnitter 1987, pp. 60, table 1, 62; James & Chanson 2002; Arenillas & Castillo 2003

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