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In the Llosa del Cavall reservoir, the images speak for themselves and tell us about the long and persistent drought. If now the reservoir is at 23.19% of its capacity, last year around this time it was at almost 45%, while the average for the last 5 years is 70%.
It is not strange, then, that these comparative photographs of the swamp, portrayed in June of this 2023 and in May of 2017, have an impact on Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia.
The Llosa del Cavall reservoir drinks from the Cardener river, a tributary of the Llobregat. The dam is located in the municipality of Navés and the swamp also extends through Guixers and a small portion of Sant Llorenç de Morunys, between the mountains of Busa, to the east, and Capdevila, to the west.
The reservoir, whose double-turned arch dam is 122 meters high, receives its name from the wooded and sparsely populated area known as La Llosa del Cavall.
To the west of the swamp, is the Lord's Sanctuary, which dominates the landscape, which now has to live with the lack of water and its consequences.
