Camarillas Reservoir, Reservoir in the province of Albacete, Spain

Camarillas Reservoir is a large water storage area in the valley of the River Mundo, which flows through a deep canyon bounded by steep limestone walls. The water is held back by a concrete dam that controls the river's flow and supports irrigation for local farms during dry periods.

Planning for the dam began in the late 1920s, with construction starting in the early 1930s but later interrupted, resuming after the Civil War in the 1950s. The dam was finally completed in the early 1960s, fundamentally altering the local landscape as entire settlements and farmland were submerged.

The reservoir's water is used to irrigate farmland and supply the town of Hellín, a role fixed in the 1930 project approved in 1931. The dam stands in the Cañón de los Almadenes, and the access road runs from Agramón toward the Minas area, past the point where the canyon narrows around the river Mundo.

You can reach the reservoir from Agramón via a local road that leads to a service track close to the dam. The best time to visit is during the dry months when water levels are clear, allowing you to walk along paths beside the water or hike across the surrounding hills.

The dam stands in the Cañón de los Almadenes, the gorge cut by the Río Mundo. The reservoir's catchment covers 1,616.4 km², more than double that of the upstream Talave reservoir (766.5 km²); together they drain 2,382.9 km². At maximum normal level the water covers 320 ha with a capacity of 35.84 hm³ and a 34.2 km shoreline.