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The great symbol of the drought in Catalonia for many months has been the Sau reservoir, in the Osona region, the object of tourist pilgrimage to see the ruins of the ancient town that were exposed and that, now, little by little, are beginning to disappear. be submerged again.
This is because the Sau reservoir is recovering its flow with the latest rains and thaw. In fact, it is now at 7.28%, when a year ago it was at 6.56%.
Instead, the gaze is on the Llosa del Cavall reservoir, in Solsonès, which seems anchored in the drought landscape, as seen in these photographs in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos.
The Llosa del Cavall reservoir drinks from the Cardener river, a tributary of the Llobregat. The dam is located in the municipality of Navès 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.
To the west of the swamp is the Lord's Shrine, which dominates the landscape. The reservoir, whose double-circle arch dam is 122 meters high, is named after the wooded and sparsely populated area known as Llosa del Cavall.
The Vall de Lord takes us to the north of the Solsonès region and includes the municipalities of Sant Llorenç de Morunys (the largest population center that retains its walled enclosure), La Coma and La Pedra (two population centers that form a unique municipality surrounded by centuries-old fountains and oak groves) and Guixers (where the population lives spread out in farmhouses).
At the moment, the Llosa del Cavall reservoir is at 19.27% of its capacity, worse than last year at this time, when it was at 25.52%.
