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Outside from the Iberian peninsula mainland, streams in the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla are seasonal watercourses. The Santa Eulàlia river in Ibiza was traditionally considered as the single proper 'river' in the Balearic Islands, but it lost its constant flow by the late 20th-century.
The Balearic Sea (endotoponym: Mar Balear in Catalan and Spanish) also known as Iberian Sea, [1] is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea between the Balearic Islands and mainland Spain. [2] The Ebro River flows into this small sea.
Madeira (Portugal) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Canary Islands (Spain) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Faroe Islands (Denmark) Greenland (Denmark) - geographically a part of the continent of North America, politically and culturally associated with Europe.
The official name of the Balearic Islands in Catalan is Illes Balears, while in Spanish, they are known as the Islas Baleares.. The ancient Greeks usually adopted local names into their own language, but they called the islands Γυμνησίαι / Gymnesiai, unlike either the native inhabitants of the islands, the Carthaginians, or the Romans, who called them Βαλεαρεῖς, with the ...
Relief map of peninsular Spain and the Balearic Islands. Map of Spain showing terrain altitude and topography. The Canary Islands, located in North Africa, are of volcanic origin. Hypsometric curve of peninsular Spain. In spite of being bathed by the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, half of its surface is at 660 m or more above sea level.
The remaining regions of Spain are the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, the former located in the Mediterranean Sea and the latter in the Atlantic Ocean. [3] The Balearic Islands, encompassing a total area of 5,000 square kilometers, lie 80 kilometers off Spain's central eastern coast. [3]
The 15 rivers of Europe by average discharge, including only rivers directly flowing into the World Ocean or Endorheic basins: Volga - 8,087 m³/s (largest river in Eastern Europe) Danube - 6,450 m³/s (largest river in Central Europe) Pechora - 4,380m³/s; Northern Dvina - 3,330m³/s; Neva - 2,490 m³/s; Rhine - 2,315 m³/s) (largest river in ...
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