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River Basins in continental Spain. This is an incomplete list of rivers that are at least partially in Spain. The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into.
It flows into the Mediterranean Sea, forming a delta in the Terres de l'Ebre region, in southern Catalonia. In the Iberian peninsula, it ranks second in length after the Tagus and second in discharge volume, and drainage basin, after the Douro. It is the longest river entirely within Spain; the other two mentioned flow into Portugal.
The variant of the Roman road between Herrera de Pisuerga (Pisorica) and the coast that crosses the Sierra de Híjar through the Somahoz pass, crossing the river at Espinilla, was used by Emperor Charles V after arriving in Spain from Flanders, disembarking at Tazones and going up the valley of the Saja to reach Valladolid and take possession ...
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 ...
The rivers of Galicia form part of a dense hydrographical network in the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia and has been described by Otero Pedrayo as “the land of a thousand rivers”.
Map of the Tagus Basin. The Tagus Basin is the drainage basin of the Tagus River, which flows through the west of the Iberian Peninsula and empties into Lisbon.It covers an area of 78,467 km 2, [1] which is distributed 66% (55,645 km 2) on Spanish territory and 34% on Portuguese land (22,822 km 2).
The Ega is a river in the north of Spain. It is a tributary of the Ebro , which in turn empties into the Blearic Sea . The Ega flows through Navarre , but it originates in Álava , near Lagrán , and flows through the town of Estella-Lizarra .
Rivers flowed from the east and southwest into a central lake with no exit. During the Pliocene, the western part of the basin was drained by the paleo-Cacín river system, which flowed to the north and then left the basin to the west. The eastern part was drained by the Alhambra system, or paleo-Genil system, was fed by the mountains to the ...