The Guèmol canal is the last of the five canals built that cross the city of Banyoles. Its name, already documented in 1337, comes from the Guèmol plain, the area it irrigates. It is the only one of Banyoles’ canals that was never used for industrial purposes.

The canal’s name originated in the Middle Ages from the neighbouring area of the same name. It was already mentioned in 1337, when it ran through an area of quarries and farmland. In the Monastery’s property records from the 16th and 17th centuries, it consistently appears as the Guèmol canal. Its waters were used to irrigate vegetable gardens, olive groves and agricultural fields.