Silchar Reservoir

Silchar Reservoir in Valencian, from Sitjar is located in the municipality of Onda in the province of Castellon, Spain. It was built in the year 1960 in the bed of the Mijares river, on an area of 317 hectares and with a maximum capacity of 52 hm³. The work was built using a concrete gravity dam with a height of 58 m and a crown length of 581 m.

Its water evacuation system consists of four bottom spillways with a capacity of 60 m³ / s and two others in the upper part of the dam equipped with gates with a capacity of 2800 m³ / s.It is mainly used to regulate irrigation, to control floods and to produce electricity. This dam belongs to the Hydrographic Confederation of Jucar.