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The Tagus (/ ˈ t eɪ ɡ ə s / TAY-gəs; Spanish: Tajo ⓘ; Portuguese: Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.The river rises in the Montes Universales between Cuenca and Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows 1,007 km (626 mi), generally westward, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean in Lisbon.
Where a named river derives from the confluence of two differently named rivers these are labelled as ls and rs for the left and right forks (the rivers on the left and right, relative to an observer facing downstream). The transboundary rivers partially running through Portugal or France and/or along the borders of Spain with those countries ...
The River Arnoia (Galician: río Arnoia) is a tributary of the río Miño in Galicia, northwest Spain. At 84.5 kilometers, it is the longest river in the province of Ourense. The Spanish wine denominación de origen protegida of Ribeiro DOP is located at the confluences of the valleys formed by the rivers Miño, Avia, and Arnoia. [1]
The Minho (/ ˈ m iː n. j uː / MEEN-yoo; Portuguese:) or Miño (/ ˈ m iː n j oʊ / MEEN-yoh; Spanish: ⓘ; Galician:; Proto-Celtic: *Miniu) is the longest river in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain, with a length of 340 kilometres (210 mi). It forms a part of the international border between Spain and Portugal.
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The Guadarrama is a river in Spain. A tributary of the Tagus, the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula, Guadarrama has its source in the Siete Picos, part of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the Community of Madrid, in the central part of the country, at an altitude of 1,900 metres (6,200 ft).
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
The Guadalquivir (/ ˌ ɡ w ɑː d əl k ɪ ˈ v ɪər /, also UK: /-k w ɪ ˈ-/, US: /-k iː ˈ-, ˌ ɡ w ɑː d əl ˈ k w ɪ v ər /, [1] [2] [3] Spanish: [ɡwaðalkiˈβiɾ]) is the fifth-longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-longest river with its entire length in Spain. The Guadalquivir is the only major navigable river in ...