The Almendra Dam is in Salamanca, Spain, on the Tormes River. It was finished in 1970 and works with four other Spanish dams and three Portuguese dams to provide power to the region. The reservoir created by the dam is 86.5 square kilometers and covers a number of small villages, including Argusinos. The village the damn is named after sits five kilometers away. The 202-foot dam is one of Spain's tallest structures.
Talarn Dam in Catalonia, Spain is more than 200 meters long and 80 meters high. The massive concrete structure was built in 1913 and was designed to irrigate local farmland and feet power plants as well as provide power. Ten million cubic feet of concrete hold back the Noguera Pallaresa River and has been doing so since 1913.
The Alcantara Dam is located on the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula, the Tagus River. Named after the Roman Alcantara Bridge located 600 meters away, the dam sits close to the Portuguese border. The reservoir created by the dam, the Embalse de Alcántara, is the third reservoir on the Tagus River, after the Embalse de Valdecañas and the Embalse de Torrejon.
