Gorg blue

Gorg blue
	View of the Gorg Blau from the north-west bank
Location:	Escorca municipality , Mallorca
Drain:	Torrent de Gorg Blau → Cúber → Torrent d'Almadrà → Torrent de Muro → Mediterranean
	Balearic Islands , Spain
Coordinates	39 ° 48 '13 " N , 2 ° 49' 9" E Coordinates: 39 ° 48 '13 " N , 2 ° 49' 9" E
	Data on the structure
	Area of the lake in 1904, before flooding

Gorg Blau is a reservoir on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca .

location

The reservoir is located in the Serra de Tramuntana mountains in the north-west of the island in the municipality of Escorca . To the west of the lake rises the largest mountain on the island, the Puig Major . To the southwest lies the Cúber , another reservoir, to which there is a connection via the Torrent de Gorg Blau . The Ma-10 road runs from Pollença to Sóller on the west bank of the lake .

history

The reservoir was created in the late 1960s / early 1970s. In the flooded area was the prehistoric mountain sanctuary Almallutx , which was abandoned in 1969 and dates from the 6th to the 1st century before the beginning of our era. Three horizontal pillars of the facility were secured and re-erected on the current shore of the lake.

The reservoir with its capacity of 7.36 million m³ is primarily used to supply the municipality of Palma with drinking water . However, due to the sharp increase in water demand, the amount of reservoirs is no longer sufficient today. Together with the water in the Cúber, which has a capacity of 4.64 million m³, the water supplies would only be sufficient for 58 summer days to cover the water demand.

Web links

Commons : Gorg Blau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Susanne Lipps, Oliver Breda: Mallorca. Dumont, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7701-7634-2 , p. 191 f.
↑ ^a ^b Ciclo integral del agua - Captación. In: Homepage of the water supplier EMAYA. Retrieved October 10, 2018 (European Spanish).
^ ^A ^b Joan-Antoni Adrover i Mascaró: 600 questions about Mallorca. Campos, 2010, ISBN 978-84-614-1808-4 , p. 93.

[1] Susanne Lipps, Oliver Breda: Mallorca. Dumont, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7701-7634-2 , p. 191 f.

[:0-2] Ciclo integral del agua - Captación. In: Homepage of the water supplier EMAYA. Retrieved October 10, 2018 (European Spanish).

[:1-3] A ^b Joan-Antoni Adrover i Mascaró: 600 questions about Mallorca. Campos, 2010, ISBN 978-84-614-1808-4 , p. 93.