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History of the Water Tribunal (Tribunal de las Aguas de la Vega de Valencia)

Tribunal de las Aguas de la Vega de Valencia · 2026

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Accessed: 2026-09-01
Reliability notes: The Tribunal's own pages on history, canals and members; source for 17,000 ha, 138 shares and the eight canals.

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EstablishedThe Tribunal is made up of the trustees of the eight main canals of the Vega of Valencia, who must be farmers working their own land; it meets weekly in public, judges orally in Valencian and keeps no written record.DisputedThe often-quoted founding date of 960 CE is a tradition based on inference about the Caliphate period and promoted in the twentieth century; the institution is documented after the Christian conquest of 1238.