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Datsusara Outdoors
October 18, 2022
Hiking
The weir is part of what used to be a reservoir to divert water from the Guadalix River to Madrid back in the early 20th century. Today only ruins remain and it is one of the icons of the well-known Hervidero route.
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Agustín Felipe Farelo
September 24, 2023
Cycling
Gate of the old dam that, together with other infrastructure, channeled water that feeds the capital
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BigJoe
September 24, 2020
Mountain biking
The El Mesto weir is an old reservoir in the Guadalix riverbed, which was inaugurated in 1905 to bring water from the Guadalix river to the primitive canal to Madrid (Canal Bajo) through a simultaneously constructed canal (Canal del Guadalix).
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