Ancient civilizations already knew and left in writing the serious risk of flooding. From the Middle Age in Spain, sayings are generated as expressions of popular wisdom. This paper collects, after reading thousands of sayings studied in selected books between 1614 and 2004, three kinds of proverbs and proverbial sayings (proverbs in general): 1, those which relate to the severity of floods along the rivers; 2, those which demostrate knowledge of the risk of ravines, which are dry riverbeds, which after a long time can become raging flash flood; and 3, the danger of very heavy rainfall in a day or an hour, typical of the Mediterranean climate. According to the collected sayings, the months of the year more prone to these events are studied,...
El presente artículo se propone analizar cómo eran percibidas las inundaciones en la Cataluña del la...
The severe consequences produced by river Guadalentín overflowing exceptionally as it passes Lorca. ...
Floods are a natural phenomenona that normally occur during Summer of every year and sometimes extra...
This article is a review af the main contributions of the Anglosaxon, French and Spanish geographica...
The study of historical floods is a growing research trend that has generated numerous methodologies...
The task of retrieving information about past flood events is very important to reconstruct flood se...
El presente artículo trata de analizar las principales características de las inundaciones del Júcar...
La localidad de Motilla del Palancar (Cuenca), situada en el interior este peninsular, se encuentra ...
[ES] En este trabajo se analiza la relación clima-crecidas a partir del estudio de series instrument...
The Spanish Mediterranean river basin provides a good background for studying floods from documentar...
The main natural risk in the Mediterranean region is flooding. Therefore, in Spain, explaining this ...
El presente artículo trata de analizar las principales características de las inundaciones del Júcar...
The present article is about the subject of the floods from the perspective of the environment histo...
Due to the rains that fell on September 7, 2015, the rambla Albuñol suffered an exponential rise of ...
Las inundaciones han sido y son un riesgo climático, con efectos catastróficos, siempre presente en ...
El presente artículo se propone analizar cómo eran percibidas las inundaciones en la Cataluña del la...
The severe consequences produced by river Guadalentín overflowing exceptionally as it passes Lorca. ...
Floods are a natural phenomenona that normally occur during Summer of every year and sometimes extra...
This article is a review af the main contributions of the Anglosaxon, French and Spanish geographica...
The study of historical floods is a growing research trend that has generated numerous methodologies...
The task of retrieving information about past flood events is very important to reconstruct flood se...
El presente artículo trata de analizar las principales características de las inundaciones del Júcar...
La localidad de Motilla del Palancar (Cuenca), situada en el interior este peninsular, se encuentra ...
[ES] En este trabajo se analiza la relación clima-crecidas a partir del estudio de series instrument...
The Spanish Mediterranean river basin provides a good background for studying floods from documentar...
The main natural risk in the Mediterranean region is flooding. Therefore, in Spain, explaining this ...
El presente artículo trata de analizar las principales características de las inundaciones del Júcar...
The present article is about the subject of the floods from the perspective of the environment histo...
Due to the rains that fell on September 7, 2015, the rambla Albuñol suffered an exponential rise of ...
Las inundaciones han sido y son un riesgo climático, con efectos catastróficos, siempre presente en ...
El presente artículo se propone analizar cómo eran percibidas las inundaciones en la Cataluña del la...
The severe consequences produced by river Guadalentín overflowing exceptionally as it passes Lorca. ...
Floods are a natural phenomenona that normally occur during Summer of every year and sometimes extra...