A large part of what is now the irrigated area of the Royal Irrigation Canal of Montcada at the Puig and Puçol was at other times, outlying areas irrigated with water from numerous seeps that surfaced on the shoreline. These were seeps that fed, continuously, the wetlands of this territory and created an environment characteristic of the shoreline between the Palància and Túria Rivers.

The agricultural garden and  marsh  spaces devoted to rice cultivation obtained water to cover their needs as much from the contributions of the drainage channels of the Royal Irrigation Canal of Montcada, as was supplied by groundwater of local origin, as is the case with springs or seeps.
The seeps of the “Puig” (Hill), along the White spring and the fountain/spring of Olive orchard were, going back to previous centuries, the main water intake for the albuferencs and wetlands areas of the town of El Puig, as is the case with the marshes, the Brosquil, the Blanca, or the Oliver.
The aforementioned area that were occupied by these waters is what is popularly known as the “extremal”, which — as was explained well by the geographer Vincent Sales — had been located of outside the medieval jurisdictional control of the Royal Irrigation Canal of Montcada. This situation, which turned itself around definitively starting with the decades of the forties in the twentieth century, when this area was incorporated into the census territory and controlled directly by the commune of Montcada — “the jovedat.”

MEDIEVAL PERIOD
(Al-Andalus) [711-1238]

MEDIEVAL PERIOD
(Kingdom of València) [1239-1453]

MODERN PERIOD [1454-1789]

CONTEMPORARY PERIOD [1790-2012]