Acceso usuarios
Murcia, España
Alicante, España
La acequia de la Andelma es el principal sistema de riego de la ribera fluvial de Cieza (Murcia, España). Lo que pretende en este estudio es identificar y reconstruir su historia. Se analiza casi un total de cuarenta documentos, procedentes de Protocolos Notariales (Archivo Histórico Provincial de Murcia) y las Actas Capitulares del Ayuntamiento de Cieza durante el periodo de la Edad Mo-derna. A través de estas fuentes podemos saber las gestiones administrativas experimentadas, como también sus tres modelos de distribuciones de agua y la importancia que tuvo la ampliación de su sistema de riego.
Three reasons lead us to carry out the following study on the Acequia de la Andelma de Cieza (Murcia, Spain), located on the left bank of the River Segura and dating from the 10th century: The importance it has in the formation of the cultural landscape of the area; the lack of information presented in it during the Modern Age and previous stages: and, and for its economic and food contribution to the population.The methodology that has been followed to build the article is as follows: first, the bi-bliography about the area have been revised; second, it has begun for almost two years a compre-hensive, careful and systematic search on historical documentary sources. Forty documents have been found: thirty of the Notarial Protocols (Provincial Historical Archive of Murcia) and the rest of the Chapter Acts of the Cieza Town Hall during the period of the Modern Age; the data have been organized in a classification according to the centuries; afterwards, the evaluation and analysis of each sample has been carried out, reviewing them in a critical way and comparing them; and, finally, the construction of the study and the bibliographical search have been carried out at the same time, with the aim of enriching and contrasting the work.
