Muro Dam

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| location = Campo Maior, Portalegre District, Portugal

| dam_length = 174 m

| dam_height = 4.6 m

| dam_width_base = 4.2 m

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| opening = Roman period

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The Muro Dam was a Roman dam in Portugal. Located near the eastern municipality of Campo Maior, it is the largest surviving ancient dam in the country south of the Tagus river.{{harnvb|Decker|1991|pp=78–79 (no. 4)}}

The 174 m long structure features three slight bends in its course. Its downstream side is supported by a series of thirteen small buttresses at intervals of 3–4 m. The central section, where the dam is highest and strongest, is further strengthened on its air-side by three vertical arches which go from buttress to buttress.

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  • {{Citation

| last = Decker

| first = Alexander

| editor-last = Garbrecht

| editor-first = Günther

| contribution = Einige römische Talsperren im heutigen Portugal

| title = Historische Talsperren

| place = Stuttgart

| publisher = Verlag Konrad Wittwer

| year = 1991

| volume = 2

| pages = 73–81

| isbn = 3-87919-158-1

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