La riada del Turia de 1731. Una aproximación a la literatura de la catástrofe

The natural events of extraordinary character that have happened along the history have stopped besides yes a great documentary legacy. Phenomena like the earthquakes, the volcanic eruptions, the droughts, the plagues, etc. they have constituted from always a motive of worry for the exposed populations and an occasion to untie the imagination of the chroniclers. In case of the city of Valencia, no natural phenomenon has influenced so much his history as the avenues appellants of the river Turia. One of them, the extraordinary flood of September, 1731, remained registered in documents of all kinds that can be included under the common name of literature of the catastrophe. In this article there are analyzed four printed relations of the event and two personal manuscript record-books, in an attempt of extending the information known about the disaster and, especially, of framing it in the social and political context in which it took place.