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The Mayor of the town, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, along with the Councillor for Culture and Tourism, Maribel Martinez, have witnessed this morning the opening of the ports, which are formed as vertical openings in the Rambla de Nogalte and connect with the galleries water filter is located under the Rambla.
The City is finalizing the draft Water Route will include a tour in which you can see how the ports, and the abstraction of groundwater from the Rambla de Nogalte.
Thursday March 15, 2012.
The Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, accompanied by the Councillor for Culture and Tourism, Maribel Martinez, visited this morning the Rambla de Nogalte, where technicians working in the Water Route have been the opening of a port that connects to infiltration galleries that capture the water from the Rambla de Nogalte.
The Mayor of the town, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, explained that "the City is finalizing the draft Water Route will incorporate visits to raise awareness of the historical systems of water management in the municipality through the ports."
Here, tourists, lumbrerenses and any interested citizen may know how to capture and distribute the water through the ports and the location of the tunnels through the Water Route.
Note that since time immemorial, water and its use was a matter of concern for lumbrerenses.
In that sense, for several hundred years, dates the existence of infiltration galleries to capture runoff from the Rambla de Nogalte.
These buildings have vertical openings called "ports" to access and record water intake tunnel.
Thus, this term comes from the name of the municipality.
In addition, particular relevance has noted the historical importance of Caño Viejo for the township, which is reflected in their constant adaptation works throughout history since the time of the Arabs.
Already in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were taken to improve it, but from a new viewpoint should highlight the work of two presidents of the Owners of the Aguas del Caño and raft Lumbreras, Pedro Garcia and Pedro Sanchez Legs Guirao, who during his years as head of the Community initiated and completed a project to peel and clean the pipe and through the contracaño, ready for the best use and collection of runoff of the ravine, and cleaning Balsa and reconstruction of the headquarters of the Society.
Thus, the drain collects groundwater from the Rambla de Nogalte.
For the proper use of them has organized a network of irrigation especially because of its antiquity.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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