• The emblem of Pegalajar, in Sierra Mágina, La Charca shows how much water has meant to the development of the village.
  • Since medieval times it has gathered the water from the source of the Fuente de la Reja.
  • That water was used to irrigate the olive groves and vegetable gardens of Pegalajar, which it reached through an extensive system of ditches. The mills, mentioned as early as 1465, were also driven by water from La Charca.
  • The aquifer dried up in 1988 because of overexploitation, leaving La Charca without water. A plan to recover it began in 2007, and today it looks splendid again, with this inscription on one of its walls: “I who gave life demand in justice that you do not let me die”.