Carraixet
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The ravine of Carraixet is a course of northern water of the Valencian province, in the Valencian Community (Spain). It wells close to Gátova and collects waters from the south slopes of the Calderona mountain.[1] It ends in the Mediterranean sea in the area of Alboraya.[1] The part of his mouthing is also called ravine of Olocau or ravine of Peralvillo. Inthe Book of the Facts (in Valencian: Llibre dels feits) James I called it riu Sec ("Dry river") while talking about the battle of the Puig.[1]
Course
The ravine of the Carraixet wells in the west area of Gátova. It collects waters from the south slope of the Calderona mountain chain, specifically from the sources of Alameda and Xarvilla.[1] Afterwards it passes through Olocau and flows with direction south-east to the end of Bétera, reaching his wide river bed. The ravines of Cirer and Náquera[1] are joining it from the left. It crosses earlier the end of Moncada and touches Alfara of the Patriarch, and is serving as the border between the municipalities. It exerts this function almost until its mouth. Like this it is passing by Foyos and Vinalesa, where it hits the ravine of Palmaret Alto. From here, and already piped, it continues to the Valencian municipalities Benifaraig and Carpesa. It hits Bonrepós and Mirambell and is taking afterwards direction east. It is going through Tavernes Blanques, a population on its right margin. In this height the shrine of the Virgin of the abandoned can be found next to the channel. This shrine is reconstructed and reformed in the same place that occupied the constructed area in 1447, next to the place where they buried the executed.[1] The ancient road of Valencia to Barcelona crosses here the ravine. It enters afterwards the end of Alboraya. The course, generally dry until here, begins to be seen filled with water, coming from diverse wells situated inside of the same course. The last route of the ravine is totally filled with water and is a fishing area. In its right margin, near to the mouth, there is another shrine that commemorates the miracle of the fish.[2]
Canalisation
Its course, usually dry, can be destroying in periods of strong rains because of the size of its basin and the strong fall of its course. The remarkable floods were the once of 1949 and 1957.[1] Furthermore, due to its zero flow there are a lot of garden paths between various localities of the region. These are unpractical and dangerous for crossing if the ravine contains some water.
Tributaries
- Ravine of l'Olla.
- Ravine of Pedralbilla.[3]
- Ravine of Cirer (is born in the mountain chain Calderona).[4]
Green road
In September 2015 representatives of the communities of Compromís of the margins of Carraixet gathered in the place of Pont Sec ("dry bridge") to defend the ravine as a natural space, put in use his values of landscapes, biologicals and properties and to report the aggressions that it is suffering. The deputy of Compromís Joan Baldoví presented an amendment to the general budgets of the State, demanding an investment to adapt the margins of the ravine like a green road with shadows, accessible zones and tourist indications and relaxing zones.[5]
Pont Sec
39°33′42.75″N 0°23′13.95″W / 39.5618750°N 0.3872083°W
In the end of the municipality of Moncada, the ravine is a range road and has degraded a lot in the last years, with dumps of rubbish, uncontrolled agricultural transformations, etc. because of that the ecosystem of the aquatic plants have disappeared almost entirely. Between the Pont Sec and the Racó of Casans (Metropolitan Seminar), between the municipal terms of Moncada and Foyos, exists the upwelling of the Acequia of Bofilla, that provides water to keep it a humid zone in the middle of the ravine, which is usually a dry and humid zone. This facilitates the nesting of birds in spring, and the possibility to see moorhens between the bushes of cattail mallards, etc. It is also possible to see numerous of the vegetal species.[6][7]
Environmental volunteering
Since the year 2013 the volunteers of the Project Emys of Acció Environmentalist-Agró have started to monitor the population of Iberian water turtles that are surviving in the Pont Sec, with traps made of nets. In this way they are able to count the amount of the Mauremys leprosa.
In the year 2015, 24 volunteers participated this initiative in collaboration with the Colla Ecologista of Massarrojos, Col·lectiu Cultural Bòbila of Alfara of the Patriarch and the Associació Cultural Macarella of Bonrepós and Mirambell, which took place in the Pont Sec. They localized five Iberian water turtles, three already captured and counted in previous editions and two new individuals counted for the first time. They removed a Pond slider, an exotic species and offender of the local turtles.[6]
Municipalities it is passing by
- Gátova
- Marines
- Olocau
- Bétera
- Moncada
- Alfara Of the Patriarch
- Vinalesa
- Bonrepós And Mirambell
- Tavernes Blanques
- Almácera
- Alboraya
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Carraixet, barranco de". Gran Enciclopedia Temática de la Comunidad Valenciana. Vol. Geografía. Editorial Prensa Valenciana. 2009.
- ^ Almàssera: Guía turística (in Spanish). Almácera: Ayuntamiento de Almácera. 2008.
- ^ Gran Enciclopedia Catalana (ed.). «barranc de Carraixet». l'Enciclopèdia (en catalán).
- ^ Gran Enciclopedia Catalana (ed.). «barranc del Cirer». l'Enciclopèdia (en catalán).
- ^ Bonrepos.compromis.net, ed. (15 setembre 2015). "Joan Baldoví visita el Carraixet i reivindica la via verda al Congrés". Retrieved Febrer 2016.
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