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article_detailRambla de La Santa Totana
This empty, dry channel can become a raging torrent following heavy rains
Many towns in Spain are built on either side of a “rambla”, a waterway cut by nature which allows the vast volumes of water which can fall during a heavy autumn storm to run away and down into the rivers and seas.
The intensity of these autumn rains often follows months of seemingly endless sun and with the ground baked rock hard, water is not easily absorbed, choosing the easiest route downhill.Within minutes of a heavy storm the ramblas can start to run, and as water filters down from the surrounding hills, they become extremely dangerous, carrying millions of litres of mud and water out to the coast.
Extremely heavy episodes of autumnal rain can even reach the status of Gota Fría, or cold drop, an intense storm caused by a specific set of meteorological conditions during which downpours can be terrifying in their intensity.
Ramblas normally run at the base of an area of sloping land and are fed by thousands of small run-offs along their course, and where they run through urban areas are generally supported and lined to prevent collapse.
One such rambla runs through the centre of Totana, the Rambla de la Santa and although the rambla is generally a dry dustbucket is a vital part of the town infrastructure as the video clearly shows.
Very often the main town grew up around the rambla, and this is the case in Totana, the two residential areas known as Sevilla and Triana, on either side of the Rambla de la Santa. The former contained most of the main religious and civic buildings, as well as the routes leading to Murcia, Cartagena, Lorca and Mazarrón, while the latter was home to paid workers and peasants as well as the Franciscan monks, making it the poorer side of the Rambla. The names of the two areas came from the commercial relationship which had grown between Totana and the city of Seville after many natives of Totana went to work in the capital of Andalucía in the soda and barrel-making industries.
There is plenty of parking alongside the rambla today.
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