Cornalbo Dam
dam, Spain
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The Cornalbo Dam is a Roman-era dam located in southwestern Spain. While the Romans were skilled civil engineers, their advancements in dam construction were not as significant as their work in aqueducts for water transport and distribution. The Cornalbo Dam is notable for its construction, featuring masonry walls that create cells filled with stones or clay and then faced with mortar. Some Roman engineers understood the benefit of curving a dam upstream, a concept that foreshadowed modern curved gravity dams.1
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