Chira Reservoir

The reservoir currently has little water.
There is also construction work going on at the moment, we actually wanted to go back up to the reservoir.
But still a nice round.

The history of the Chira Dam begins on August 30, 1932, in the middle of the 2nd Republic, when the Cabildo de Gran Canaria requested the concession of the discontinuous public water flowing through the Barranco de Chira to fill the Soria reservoir, whose license was applied for in the same procedure. The original proposal called for a diversion dam (its goal was to raise water levels to allow for later diversion). The inquiries were answered positively in 1934.The difficulties encountered in processing the Soria Dam project led the chief engineer of the province to order the replacement of the diversion dam with a dam (in order to concentrate the objective on water storage) and to order the preparation of a new project, which began in 1941 was approved. Work began in the same year, but had to be stopped three years later due to a lack of budget.More than five years after the first project, another technical document is being prepared to complete the paralyzed foundation. This defines the dam as we know it today, standing 32 meters above the riverbed and 41 meters from its foundation with a circular plan. In 1955, the final project and its budget were approved, allowing the work to be completed and inaugurated just a decade later.Source: canarias7.es/canarias/gran-canaria/historia-futuro-presas-20201129100447-nt.html

Nice trip. Some parts are less suitable for people with a fear of heights. Due to unstable rocky ground.