Impacto de las segregaciones municipales sobre los juzgados de aguas del Bajo Segura en el siglo XVIII

Résumé

The impact of the municipal segregation on the Courts of irrigation of Bajo Segura during the XVIII century. The complex territorial infrastructure of the irrigation in Bajo Segura underwent profound changes throughout the Modern Age, which were largely related to the municipal segregation process and territorial colonisations developed in the original municipal district of the city of Orihuela. This presentation deals with the impact that the various methods adopted by that fragmented dynamic had on the waters of the said zone, fundamentally with the peculiarities that the particular insertion of each specific irrigation displayed within the Bajo Segura complex constitutive macrosystem; paying special attention to analysing the specific case of Rojales town. This reflects how the absence of the strict correlations between the ditch or dam system on one hand, and the municipal districts on the other hand, each one spread over several of these, it impeded the establishment of new closed jurisdictional spaces susceptible to entirely projecting over the totality of the irrigation perimeters corresponding to each unity of derivation or distribution of waters