Miguelico Nuñez Waterwheel

RM-514, Km. 3
30540 BLANCA
Telephone: 868169945
e-mail: turismo@blanca.es

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MIGUELICO NUÑEZ WATERWHEEL
MIGUELICO NUÑEZ WATERWHEEL
MIGUELICO NUÑEZ WATERWHEEL
MIGUELICO NUÑEZ WATERWHEEL
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Located in the spot of Bujerca, in Huerta de Arriba, its purpose was to raise water from the principal canal in Blanca to irrigate around 2.7 tahúllas (0.30hz).

The last functional wheel was the work of the master carpenter and hydraulic turbine inventor Antonio Molina Cano (1879-1953). His ingenuity led him to coin a type of wheel that he used in several waterwheels, such as those of La Quinta and Antonio Molina Cano, also in Huerta de Arriba.
The Blanqueño craftsman would increase the number of spokes to eliminate the intermediate rim and thus make it lighter and with more inertia.

Made of wood, except for the axle and metal plates, Miguelico Núñez's waterwheel was 8 metres in diameter, had 14 spokes, 42 blades and the same number of buckets arranged on its left crown. Although the waterwheel was well preserved in 1970, it would not be functional at the end of that decade, as its hydraulic space was irrigated with water from the "El Progreso" motor (1912). In 2002, it was rebuilt from the original shaft and plates, although with a tourist, not agricultural, function.

How to Arrive?

In Blanca

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