PLANO DE NIVELACIÓN EXTERIOR DE SEVILLA DE 1859

Abstract

The article presents a surveying project by the architect Eduardo García Pérez on the perimeter of the city of Seville. The project forms part of a possible plan of defence for the city against flooding by the River Guadalquivir, and it accordingly takes its altitudes with reference to the normal leve! of the river, analysing them al 107 points on the edge of the city. In the course of this examination five sections are also included, in which the exterior point of the route is studied in relation to other, lower points inside. Dated 1856, this is the first scientific and graphically detailed study to be carried out on the altitudes of the perimeter of Seville.