Esparragalejo Dam

Esparragalejo Dam
Location	Badajoz province, Extremadura, Spain
Coordinates	38°56′55.5″N6°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 multiple arch dam. ^[1]

See also

• List of Roman dams and reservoirs
• Roman architecture
• Roman engineering

Notes

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

References

• Arenillas, Miguel; Castillo, Juan C. (2003), "Dams from the Roman Era in Spain. Analysis of Design Forms (with Appendix)", 1st International Congress on Construction History [20th–24th January], Madrid, retrieved 29 December 2018– via TRAIANVS
• James, Patrick; Chanson, Hubert (2002), "Historical Development of Arch Dams. From Roman Arch Dams to Modern Concrete Designs", Australian Civil Engineering Transactions, CE43: 39–56
• Schnitter, Niklaus (1978), "Römische Talsperren", Antike Welt, 8 (2): 25–32
• Schnitter, Niklaus (1987), "Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Pfeilerstaumauer", in Garbrecht, Günther (ed.), Historische Talsperren, Stuttgart: Verlag Konrad Wittwer, pp. 57–74, ISBN   3-87919-145-X