Turia
| Turia | ||
 The Turia at Benaguacil |
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| Data | ||
| location | Spain | |
| River system | Turia | |
| origin | Confluence of the Guadalaviar and Alfambra rivers 40 ° 20 ′ 43 ″ N , 1 ° 7 ′ 23 ″ W |
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| Source height | approx. 870 msnm | |
| muzzle | at Valencia in the Mediterranean Coordinates: 39 ° 25 ′ 27 ″ N , 0 ° 19 ′ 52 ″ W 39 ° 25 ′ 27 ″ N , 0 ° 19 ′ 52 ″ W |
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| Mouth height | 0 msnm | |
| Height difference | approx. 870 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 3.1 ‰ | |
| length | 280 km | |
| Catchment area | 6,393.6 km² | |
| Big cities | Valencia | |
| Medium-sized cities | Teruel | |
The Río Turia ( Valencian Riu Túria ) is a river in Spain . It arises from the confluence of its source rivers Guadalaviar and Alfambra west of the city of Teruel and flows into the Mediterranean after about 200 km in the port city of Valencia .
Although it is not a large river, it has been irrigating the entire area of Valencia, also known as Campo del Turia or Huerta de Valencia , for centuries thanks to a sophisticated irrigation system . The Valencian region is known for its very productive agriculture.
ecology
Heavy rains have already led to a drastic increase in its water level several times, which on October 14, 1957, led to a flood of the entire city center of Valencia. As a result, in the 1960s in the urban area of Valencia, the river was diverted to a new bed running along the south of the city. The drained, eight kilometers long and about 200 meters wide original river bed, which runs through the middle of the city, has been the subject of discussions that have lasted for decades.
- see also: Great flood of Valencia in 1957
The Turia in Valencia
Initially, it was planned to run an urban motorway here . However, with the democratization of Spain after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and the growing activity of citizens' initiatives , the publicly expressed desire of the population to create a central park instead of the drained river bed increased. With a royal decree of December 1, 1976, the state transferred the ownership rights to the old turiabed to the municipality of Valencia, which in October 1981 commissioned the architect Ricardo Bofill to undertake the basic planning for a park located in the former river bed. In July 1983 the project was approved by the local council and construction began in October 1985. This long discussion phase was due to the high costs of the project, but also to the resistance of real estate interests.
The conversion of the old turia bed into an almost seven-kilometer-long park and leisure facility on around 100 hectares, easily accessible from the adjacent residential areas, took place mainly in the 1990s. In 1991 the construction of the Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences) designed by Santiago Calatrava and adjoining it to the east , which is a new cultural highlight in Valencia, began.
See also
literature
- Robert Schediwy: City Images - Reflections on Change in Architecture and Urbanism. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7755-8 (especially p. 234ff)
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