Una noria en Martiricos como último testigo del regadío en el BajoGuadalmedina (Málaga, España)

Abstract

This research focuses on the Ortega farm, located in the city of Malaga, where its waterwheel is preserved as the only surviving hydraulic heritage from its agricultural past, so that a necessary and unpublished study is shown. As issues to be resolved we have the evolution of the agricultural landscape of Málaga, an example being this farm and its incorporation of irrigation through the waterwheel. To do this, we will use architectural analysis, image processing from different periods and archival consultation. After analyzing the exterior of the waterwheel, although not inside, the study reveals the secular transformation of the agricultural landscape of Málaga, with dedication to cereal crops, vineyards and vegetable gardens in Vega, discovering that the construction of the wheel must have taken place in the second decade of the 19th century, irrigation intensifying in subsequent decades until urbanization from the middle of the 20th century onwards.