This type of infrastructure proliferated along the Atlantic coast of Europe during the Middle Ages, and especially after the great discoveries, whose maritime routes increased the need for flour.

These were environmentally sustainable infrastructures integrated into the natural environment, which, however, fell into disuse due to their lack of profitability and productivity in the 19th century after the Industrial Revolution.

[2] On the coast of Huelva, there is evidence of tidal mills in Gibraleón, Moguer and Ayamonte dated the 15th to 16th centuries.

[1] The mill stands on a small elevation of the land and is rectangular in shape.

The remains of the base and some ruined walls can be seen, oriented on a northwest-southeast axis.