Puy Foradado Dam

Puy Foradado Dam
Location	Zaragoza province, Aragon, Spain
Coordinates	42°17′08″N 1°12′38″W / 42.28556°N 1.21056°WCoordinates: 42°17′08″N 1°12′38″W / 42.28556°N 1.21056°W
Opening date	2nd or 3rd century
Dam and spillways
Impounds	Riguel River (Ebro basin)
Height	2.0 m
Length	56.0 m
Width (base)	1.0 m

The Puy Foradado Dam was a Roman arch-gravity dam in Zaragoza province, Aragon, Spain, dating to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.^[1]

See also

• List of Roman dams and reservoirs
• Roman architecture
• Roman engineering

Notes

1. Arenillas & Castillo 2003

References

• Arenillas, Miguel; Castillo, Juan C. (2003), "Dams from the Roman Era in Spain. Analysis of Design Forms (with Appendix)", 1st International Congress on Construction History [20th–24th January], Madrid