The salt water transport

The salt water transport is done continuously and by gravity through a network of canals called 'rollos'. Although originally many of them were simple trenches dug in the ground, they eventually were replaced by logs, usually pine.

The main distribution system -with more than three kilometers in total length- starts at the fountain of Santa Engracia in a single channel which is divided into two in a distribution tank called 'Partidero': on the eastern slope of the valley flows the Royo de Suso and on the west slope the Quintana. Through the first go twelve parts of the brine and through the second, thirteen. At a short distance from the distribution, in what's called Celemín, is split again into two. The one that supplies the east side is still known as Quintana and the one providing the central area is called del Medio or Meadero.