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Completion of the Flumendosa - Mulargia Irrigation System.
Map of Sardinia, Nuraghe Arrubiu dam, and peasant.
Stamp issued on 01.02.1958.
Face value: 25 Italian lire.
Design: Corrado Mancioli (1904-1968) & Amilcare Santini (1910-1975).
Engraving: Mario Colombati (1912-?).
Printed by Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Officina Carte e Valori, Roma.
Printing: Recess.
Print: 10,000,000 copies.
Size: 40 x 24 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1004.
- Sassone No. 826.
- Scott No. 738.
- StampWorld No. 980.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 961.
- Unificato No. 826.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 753.

The Flumendosa is a river of southern Sardinia. With a length of 127 km (79 mi), it is the second longest river of the island behind the Tirso. Its springs are located in the Gennargentu massif, at the foot of the Monte Armidda; it flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Its path is barred at two different points by massive dams. The first dam, built between 1948 and 1949, forms the Upper Flumendosa Lake. The second dam, built between 1952 and 1958 at the height of the Nuraghe Arrubiu, is used for the production of electricity and irrigation. A 6 km (3.73 mi) long tunnel connects it to the nearby lake Mulargia, where a system of water pipes begins, partly in the tunnel and partly on the surface, which carries water to irrigate the plain at the Campidano di Cagliari and to supplying drinking water to the city of Cagliari and about forty smaller towns.

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Thanks to Fadda Giuseppe for his contribution.