Human Impacts
In Spain three autonomous communities, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura and Andalusia) (comprising the provinces of Ciudad Real, Badajoz, Huelva and to a small extent Albacete) are crossed by the Guadiana. Meanwhile in Portugal the river crosses the regions of Alentejo and Algarve, and the districts of Portalegre, Évora, Beja and Faro.
For the most part, the Guadiana is navigable until Mértola (a distance of 68 km). There are over thirty dams on the river basin, the largest of which is the Alqueva Dam, near Moura, in the Beja District, responsible for the largest reservoir in Europe. The Alqueva reservoir, occupies an area of 250 km², with a capacity for 4150 hm³.
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“A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)