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View of the El Gasco Dam and Guadarrama River Valley

View of the El Gasco Dam and Guadarrama River Valley

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View of the El Gasco Dam and Guadarrama River Valley

Name: View of the El Gasco Dam and Guadarrama River Valley
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Location: Torrelodones, Guadarrama, Madrid, Spain

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1. Running loop from Torrelodones

28.5km

03:10

480m

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2. Running loop from Las Matas

19.4km

02:08

320m

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3. Mirador de Las Marías loop from Puerto de Galapagar

11.8km

01:26

340m

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Alvaro

September 1, 2021

The El Gasco dam is an unfinished dam, built at the end of the 18th century (between 1787 and 1799), on the Guadarrama River. Its ruins are located at the confluence of the municipalities of Torrelodones, Galapagar and Las Rozas de Madrid, in the northwest of the Spanish autonomous community of Madrid.

It was designed by the Spanish military engineer, of French origin Carlos Lemaur, promoted and financed by the Bank of San Carlos, under the Royal Treasury of Carlos III, in the context of the works of the Guadarrama canal, which was not completed either. , of what would have been its regulating reservoir. Through this project, it was intended to create a navigable channel of 667 km, which, saving a difference of 700 m, would have linked Madrid and the Submeseta Sur with the Atlantic Ocean, connecting the waters of four main rivers: the Guadarrama (its point of origin), the Manzanares (at the height of the Toledo Bridge in Madrid), the Tagus (as it passes through Aranjuez) and the Guadalquivir (through Seville).
Source: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presa_de_El_Gasco

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Location: Torrelodones, Guadarrama, Madrid, Spain

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View of the El Gasco Dam and Guadarrama River Valley

1. Running loop from Torrelodones

2. Running loop from Las Matas

3. Mirador de Las Marías loop from Puerto de Galapagar

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