The view of La Contraparada is also called the "Azod Mayor", and it is originally a dam that was built between the ninth and tenth centuries by Muslims, and was working to control the waters of the Segura River through the so-called Huerta de Murcia, and this was done after the construction of the Arab military fortress of Murcia in In 825 by order of Abderramán II on the former Gothic Roman settlements, the Roman infrastructure of the irrigation canals at Vega del Segura was rebuilt and expanded.