"The planting of potatoes by Juanito" - Floods are natural phenomena that have been around forever. The territory of the Royal Irrigation Canal of Montcada is not free of the important recurring processes that the Carraixet ravine has had for some time. The fertility of these soils is explained, in part, by the effect of the transport of materials after the receding of the flood waters.

Floods have always been seen, as a phenomenon associated with catastrophic losses and destruction. It is, however, a natural process that has been around forever and is part of the evolution and formation of the territory that we occupy. There are many examples available from millennial cultures that have managed to thrive in floodable areas, where rivers over-flowed occasionally, with emblematic cases such as the Tigris and the Euphrates, Nile, Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Indus rivers, or in China, on the banks of the Yangtze and yellow rivers. In many parts of the world, rivers and their floodplains not only guarantee water and other natural resources, but also improve soil conditions for farming, as they may even depend on sediments deposited after a flood for the renewal of the fertility of the soil. In the case of the recurring phenomena of floods that generally come in a more violent form, with sudden flooding in drainage basins such as the the Carraixet canyon that usually remain dry throughout the year.

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

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

MODERN PERIOD [1454-1789]

CONTEMPORARY PERIOD [1790-2012]