Refundición de dominios y repoblación forestal en la porción andaluza de la cuenca del río Guadalentín

Abstract

The reiteration of disasters originated by the overflowing of Guadalentín River obliged the Government to give maximum priority, in the last years of XIXth century, to the reforestation of the higher area of its basin, like the most effective measure to beat the devastating action of waters. After to resolve the complex legal problem that stated the property of the plots (merger of domains), the reforestation of them was developed very slowly during the first third of XXth century, due to the lack of finances. When the Spanish Civil War finished, the higher consignments in the public budgets and a legislation more interventionist favoured the acceleration of the works of reforestation and the hydrologic correction, which, although they did not get to eradicate the disasters originated by torrential flood, achieved to mitigate their catastrophic effects.