Mundo River

Source of the Río Mundo

The Río Mundo (Eng. world river ) is a river in south-eastern Spain. It rises below the Calar del Mundo plateau south of the village Riópar in the province of Albacete. From there it flows eastwards largely parallel to the southern Río Segura, in which he then finally to 150 km and flows.

The Río Mundo has two reservoirs, the Talave reservoir in the middle section with a capacity of 34 cubic hectometres and Camarillas reservoir in the lower reaches with a capacity of 36.5 cubic hectometres. The Talave reservoir also receives water from the Tajo, which is brought from its reservoirs over a 250 km long aqueduct. When filling the reservoir Camarillas 1961 there were repeated tremors that lasted until March 1962.

The Río Mundo has no significant inflows right, since he receives from the mountains to his right only supply of dry rivers ( Ramblas ). The largest of them is the Rambla de Dilar. To his left tributaries include the Río de la Vega, the Río de los Vadillos the Río de Bogarra and the Arroyo de Tobarra which are all products in the Sierra de Alcaraz. They all reach the Río Mundo in its headwaters down to the Arroyo de Tobarra, which flows into it at the top of Camarillas reservoir.

Is known of the Río Mundo primarily for its source, is considered one of the most spectacular in Spain, if not the world. It rises a 25 m high and 15 m wide cave in the middle of a nearly 300 -meter-high cliff and then plunges down a nearly 100 -foot waterfall. The cave forms the end of about 30 km topographically recorded cave labyrinth, whose total length is estimated to be about 60 km. Then he makes his first kilometers a number of other picturesque waterfalls and lakes.