Casares de las Hurdes Dam and Reservoir

Casares de las Hurdes Dam and Reservoir

Casares de las Hurdes Dam was built in 1997 on the bed of the Hurdano River, municipality of Casares de las Hurdes, Caceres, Extremadura, Spain.

Casares de las Hurdes is a gravity dam type with straight plant, has a height from foundatios of 30 meters and a crest lenght of 65 meters.

Casares de las Hurdes / Maja-Robledo Reservoir belong to the Cuenca del Tajo (Tajo River Basin) and has a capacity of 0,1 hm3.

Uses of the Reservoir

Water Supplying

Other nearby reservoir

Gabriel y Galán Reservoir | Pinofranqueado Reservoir

Distances from Casares de las Hurdes

Monsagro 30 km
Nuñomoral 7,5 km
Vegas de Coria 16 km
Pinofranquedo 34 km
Ciudad Rodrigo 37 km
Riomalo de Abajo 26 km
Serradilla del Llano 16 km

Casares de las Hurdes Municipality

Casares de Las Hurdes is located in the north of the province of Cáceres and in the northwest of the region of Las Hurdes. Located between 40º26´ North latitude and 6º17´ West longitude and 680 meters above sea level, with a total population of 825 inhabitants distributed in its 6 population centers or farmhouses, which are Casarubia, Carabusino, Las Heras, La Huetre, Robledo and Casares de las Hurdes, as the head of the municipality. Its orchards are watered by one of the five rivers that make up the region, the Hurdano, forming the Valley of the same name.
It is configured by two long saws. To the north is the Sierra de la Corredera, with various altitudes close to 1,500 meters, and which limits to the north with the province of Salamanca. To the south is the Sierra de la Corredera, the Collao de la Hondonera, bordering the municipality of Nuñomoral. To the east, it borders on the term of Ladrillar, meeting the Espinar peak, also known as Las Carrascas. And to the West, it limits with Salamanca.

The climate is temperate-cold. Summer temperatures during the day exceed 30ºC and at night they do not usually exceed 27ºC.
winter is hard. The hours of sun are few. Frost lasts a long time and snow is frequent in the upper parts of the mountain.
The regular rainy season is in the months of November and December. In summer and spring storms are frequent, previously very feared due to the flooding of the river that formed deep ravines capable of endangering the houses located on the slopes of the mountain.