Description
La Charca is a reservoir that collects the waters of the birth of the Fuente de la Reja from medieval times. In the beginning it was a simple dam with a containment stone wall and gates that regulated the water output through an intricate network of miles of waterfalls. These irrigated the orchard and olive lands located to the south of the urban core, distributed in banks. The higher caces served as a southern limit to the population, thus delimiting the urban growth of Pegalajar.
This spring has never been enough to fertilize all the lands that extend on a decreasing level towards the Guadalbullion River. On the other hand, the years of drought have always been very numerous, in which the volume of this source was significantly reduced, because the piezometric surface of the aquifer located to the north of the population, which gives rise to the Charca spring, is linked to driving through galleries with siphoning phenomena.
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