Una revisió de les crescudes de 1949 a la plana del Xúquer-Túria

Abstract

This paper looks at the river floods that occurred in 1949 just before the river patterns of the main rivers were altered by the regulation works. At least three river floods with different magnitude and typology (winter, spring and autumn) were recorded at the Valencian coast at that time. The first part of this paper documents and describes the floods that occurred in the Júcar and Turia flood plain, with the information being mainly extracted from newspapers. The second part analyses and reconstructs the hydrological characteristics related to the river flood of the 28th of September in the Camp del Turia and l?Horta de Valencia areas due to its extraordinary magnitude. The paper also focuses on the vulnerability of the society and the impact of that flood on the area.