{"id":486,"date":"2026-02-03T19:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/?p=486"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:24:05","slug":"coast-marine-springs-in-the-gaspar-escolano-description-17th-century-of-the-valencian-community-coast-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/2026\/02\/03\/coast-marine-springs-in-the-gaspar-escolano-description-17th-century-of-the-valencian-community-coast-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast marine springs in the Gaspar Escolano description (17th century) of the Valencian Community coast (Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the 17th century, Gaspar Escolano made a description of the coasts of the Kingdom of Valencia. He describes different sources of fresh water along the coast. In Pe\u00f1iscola (Province of Castellon), he mentions a source near where the waves break that became saline and then returned to fresh water, being one of the first documented mentions of coastal salinization and its reversal. In the province of Valencia, the Albufera was a lagoon of sea water connected to the sea that had fresh water springs, used by fishermen. Today, some springs called \u201cullals\u201d are still active and already pour into a coastal lagoon of fresh water. Finally, in Alicante, he mentions the Agua Dulce<br>cove in Denia and the sandbank of Rio Seco, while he describes the important coastal spring of the Morro de Toix cliff, now mainly inactive. This information from 400 years ago allows us to know the coasts before the great anthropic modification of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1378\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/files\/2026\/02\/palomos-copia_low.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-487\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cave of the Palomos in Morro de Toix (Calpe) Alicante. The entrance to the cave in the cliff is about 20 m high.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cite as: Tent-Mancl\u00fas, J. E., Bonomo, D., Jord\u00e1, J. D., Navarro Pedre\u00f1o, J. y Jord\u00e1n, M. M. (2025). Las surgencias de agua dulce en la costa de la Comunidad Valenciana (Espa\u00f1a) a partir de la descripci\u00f3n de la costa de Gaspar Escolano (siglo XVII). Geogaceta, 78: 39-42.<a href=\"https:\/\/sge.usal.es\/archivos\/geogacetas\/geo78\/geo78_p_35_38.pdf\">https:\/\/sge.usal.es\/archivos\/geogacetas\/geo78\/geo78_p_35_38.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 17th century, Gaspar Escolano made a description of the coasts of the Kingdom of Valencia. He describes different sources of fresh water along the coast. In Pe\u00f1iscola (Province of Castellon), he mentions a source near where the waves break that became saline and then returned to fresh water, being one of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2324655,676],"tags":[2421064,2421067,2421065],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trips","category-sin-categoria","tag-escolano","tag-marina-springs","tag-xvii-century"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ua.es\/messinianalicante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}