Júcar

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The Júcar is a river on the Iberian Peninsula of Spain. The river runs for approximately 509 km from the Universales Mountains to Cullera, where it discharges into the Mediterranean sea at the Gulf of Valencia. Going through the towns of Cuenca, Alcala of the Jucar and Cofrente. The Cabriel is its most important affluent. In 1982 the river Júcar broke Tous's reservoir provoking the biggest flood in the Spanish history with an avalanche of 16,000 cubic meters per second, killing more than 30 people. The flood was called "La pantanada."