Land for sale in Alqueva, Portugal

Land located in Alqueva in the municipality of Portel. Land with 22ha of arable cultivation, olive grove, eucalyptus, cork oaks, some fruit trees and with an agricultural dependence, a ruin of 250m2 of housing, it also has 3 wells. Book your visit now, available to help. The Alqueva Dam is a Portuguese arch dam, located on the Guadiana River, in the Alentejo region. The construction of this dam allowed the creation of the largest artificial water reservoir in Western Europe, also called the Great Lake. It has a height of 96 m above the foundation and a crown length of 458 m. The installed capacity for the production of electricity started at 260 MW, having been the target of a power increase that allowed to expand the project's capacity to 520 megawatts (MW) (since 10/15/2012), with two reversible generator sets. , which should produce 381 gigawatt hour (GWh) annually. The reservoir reaches, at the maximum level, 250 km², being then the largest artificial lake in Western Europe. It was built with the aim of irrigating the entire Alentejo area and producing electricity, in addition to other complementary activities. Several infrastructures of the global system are already built (Pedrógão dam, infrastructure 12, Aldeia da Luz) and many others at an advanced stage of the project. In October 2012, the Alqueva Dam Power Reinforcement came into service, consisting of a new plant with two reversible generator sets, each with 130 MW of power, doubling the installed power of the Dam. At the beginning of 2015, between public and private investment, the Alqueva irrigation project has already mobilized 4 billion, to which another 1,000 million will be added until 2020, namely boosted by support from the European Commission. Regarding the impact on the labor market, among jobs created directly and indirectly induced by the projects developed in Alqueva, EDIA estimates that it could be at the level of 20 thousand jobs. EDIA - Alqueva Development and Infrastructure Company was created in 1995, is under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development and is headquartered in Beja. Its mission is to manage the Alqueva enterprise to promote economic and social development in the 20 municipalities in the districts of Beja, Évora, Portalegre and Setúbal, which corresponds to its area of intervention.