Dinámica fluvial, propiedad de la tierra y conservación del paisaje de ribera en el entorno de Aranjuez (Madrid, Toledo)

Abstract

The landscape of the alluvial plain of the Tagus river in Aranjuez is the result of the effects of civil disentailment of the territory which until the second half of the nineteenth century made up the Real Sitio (Royal Site). It is also the result of the alteration of the fluvial system produced by regulation of the river after 1950. In an initial phase until 1880, the sale of property had its main effecton land downstream from the Jarama-Tagus confluence, and caused the loss of many forest areas hitherto mostly used for hunting purposes. Later, the large remaining areas of natural floodplain in the area, part of large private estates which emerged after the disentailment of royal properties, continued to exist until the late 1960s due to their frequent flooding. From that date, regulation of the basin allowed for expansion of the agricultural zone into the previously unstable areas hitherto occupied by large alluvial forests and meadows.