This document provides details about places that will be stopped at on a hike, including Castillo Maimón, an ancient water storage structure, Fuente de La Palomera, an 18th century water tank, and an iron bridge from 1873. It also describes landscapes like a riverside forest and olive grove, as well as geographic features such as a tributary stream and Meseta Blanca plateau. Finally, it discusses Los Velascos, a former large farm with a threshing floor used to separate grains.

1. WATER,
LAND &
SMOKE
Name (s):
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A.R.R.T.
IES Alhaken II

2. Are you ready for
the hike?
These are the
places we are
going to stop by.
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3. 1. Castillo Maimón
2. Fuente de La Palomera
3. Iron bridge
4. Riverside forest
5. Olive grove
6. Tributary and main stream
(Barrionuevo and Pedroches)
7. Meseta blanca
8. Los Velascos
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4. Castillo Maimón.
Together with our next
stop, this building was
part of the Aqua Nova
Domitiana Augusta
water main. It was built
in the Ist century, A.D.
It was a castellum aquae
to store water, which
was later delivered to
the city water tanks.
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5. Castillo Maimón
It is 2.5 metres high, 20 metres long
and 15 metres wide.
What is its approximate volume?
(a) 75 m3
(b) 750 m3
(c) 7,500 m3
(d) 350 m3
If it were filled up with water, how
many litres would it take?
(a) 750,000 l.
(b) 750.000 l.
(c) 35,000 l.
(d) 7,500,000 l.
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6. Fuente de La Palomera
It was part of the
Aqva Nova
Domitiana Augusta
water main,
originally built in the
Roman times. It is a
cistern or water
tank with two
spouts, with its
current construction
dating back from
the XVIIIth century.
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7. Fuente de La Palomera
Water arrived in the city houses
because there was a network of
communicating vessels.
It was posible thanks to a system
of:
(a) water tanks, pipes and spouts;
(b) water tanks, water towers and
spouts;
(c) aquaeducts, water tanks and
pipes;
(d) aquaeducts, water tanks and
water towers.
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8. The iron bridge
It was opened to
traffic on the 5th of
September, 1873. It
was part of the track
that connected
Cordoba and Belmez
(mining area). Steam
locomotives serviced
this line. The bridge is
33 metres high from
the stream bed and it
has a span of 159
metres. It lies on two
central piers.
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9. What are the
parts of steam
locomotives
(trains)?
Water boiler _______ Firebox ______
Chimney _______ Smokebox _______
Dome _______ Piston ______
Regulator valve _____
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10. Riverside forest
These banks of
Pedroches have
transformed into very
lush riverside forests.
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11. Which of the following
trees can you identify
along this riverside
forest?
__ poplar
__ elm
__ arbutus
__ locust tree
__ hackberry
__ arbutus
__ fig tree
__ holm oak
__ pine tree
__ kermes oak
__ hawthorn
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12. This abandoned olive
grove is the best
example that people
have lived in these
country houses for
ages, by subsistence
farming. This plot
belonged to Cortijo
Valero, with its main
building just on top of
the hill.
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13. An olive grove
The fruit of the olive tree is
a small drupe.
Identify the parts of a
drupe:
(1) Pit/stone/core/endocarp
(2) Pulp/flesh/mesocarp
(3)Rind/skin/exocarp
(4)Seed inside the pit
Which other fruits are also
drupes?
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14. A tributary
It is also called
a feeder. It is a
stream that
feeds another
larger one. The
stream on your
right is
Pedroches; the
one on your
left is
Barrionuevo.
Meseta Blanca
This is its Southern
most tip. It goes by
different names:
plateau, tableland
or mesa.
It is a V-shaped
limestone plateau
surrounded by two
streams: Pedroches
and Barrionuevo.
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15. If we are heading
North, walking
upstream, which
stream is North-East
and which one is
North-West?
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16. Los Velascos
Los Velascos was the largest
country house in the area. It
is located at 252 metres
above sea level and it has a
large building containing a
large number of rooms, a
stable (West side), an inner
yard and,even, an oven. A
large threshing floor
occupied the Southern part
of the property. The
production of cereal was its
most important labour.
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17. A threshing floor
It is the place where
farmers used to separate
the grain from the cereal
plant by some mechanical
means. The grains fell on
the ground and the rest of
the plant was blown by
the wind.
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18. This threshing floor is
about 16 metres long and
18 metres wide.
Taking into account this
equivalence
1m2 = 10.7ft2
What is its area?
(a) 168 ft2
(b) 1680 ft2
(c) 308.1 ft2
(d) 3081.6 ft2
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19. A threshing floor
Which of the following lists
includes only cereal?
(a) wheat, barley, bean and
lentil;
(b) wheat, oats, bean and
barley;
(c) wheat, barley, oat and
rice;
(d) wheat, rice, bean and
lentil.
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