Muro Dam

Muro Dam
Location	Campo Maior, Portalegre District, Portugal
Opening date	Roman period
Dam and spillways
Height	4.6 m
Length	174 m
Base width	4.2 m

The Muro Dam was a Roman dam in Portugal. Located near the eastern municipality of Campo Maior, it is the largest surviving ancient dam in the country south of the Tagus river.^[1]

The 174 m long structure features three slight bends in its course. Its downstream side is supported by a series of thirteen small buttresses at intervals of 3–4 m. The central section, where the dam is highest and strongest, is further strengthened on its air-side by three vertical arches which go from buttress to buttress.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Decker 1991, pp. 78–79 (no. 4)

Sources

• Decker, Alexander (1991), "Einige römische Talsperren im heutigen Portugal", in Garbrecht, Günther, Historische Talsperren, 2, Stuttgart: Verlag Konrad Wittwer, pp. 73–81, ISBN 3-87919-158-1 

See also

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

External links

• Ministério da Cultura: Barragem Romana do Muro (Portuguese)
• Barrages romains du Portugal: Barrage de Muro (no. 16) (French)