Molinos de viento de elevar agua del Campo de Cartagena (Murcia, España) representados en los Bosquejos planimétricos (1898-1901)

The purpose of the study is to identify and analyze the distribution and survival of the water-raising windmills of Campo de Cartagena (Region of Murcia, Spain) represented in the IGE Planimetric sketches prepared between 1898 and 1901. Task for which it has been Geospatial analysis using GIS of said historical cartography, current PNOA satellite images and hydrogeological information of the region was used, in addition to field work for data and image collection and office work for bibliographic and statistical analysis. The results show that it was one of the regions with the highest concentration of windmills in the world and that the 84 identified windmills were concentrated in its southeastern sector, the one with the greatest facilities for capturing resources from the Quaternary aquifer. Heritage assets of which barely half survive, despite being identity elements of the Murcian water culture.