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The Guadiana covers a length of 76 kilometres, 818 kilometres of travel distance, of which 578 kilometres are within Spanish territory, 140 kilometres within Portugal, while 100 kilometres are shared between the two nations ; 81. 9 % of its basin is in Spain ( 55, 513 km² ) and 17. 1 % is in Portugal ( 11, 620 km² ).
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Guadiana and kilometres
By 8 April new bridges had been thrown across the Guadiana and the following day Beresford's army moved to Olivenza ; they were now over the border and 24 kilometres ( 15 mi ) south of Badajoz.
It stretches for 400 kilometres East-West across southern Spain, forming the southern border of the Meseta Central plateau of the Iberian Peninsula, and providing the watershed between the valleys of the Guadiana to the north and the Guadalquivir to the south.
Guadiana and distance
For the most part, the Guadiana is navigable until Mértola ( a distance of 68 km ).
Guadiana and which
The massif of the Sierra Morena extends northward to the Río Guadiana, which separates it from the Sistema Central.
* The basin of the Guadiana, which has principal tributaries: to the right: Guadarranque and Ruecas to the left: Zújar River which is its plentiful tributary and the Matachel.
Toponomically and traditionally the Upper Guadiana, which runs from Viveros ( Albacete ) until Argamasilla de Alba ( Ciudad Real ) had been identified as the main branch of the Guadiana.
Its one large river is the Guadiana, which traverses the north of the province from east to west, fed by many tributaries ; but it is only at certain seasons that the river-beds fill with any considerable volume of water, and the Guadiana may frequently be forded without difficulty.
French 4th Corps ( with attached Polish division under general Valance ) had to cross the bridge over the Guadiana River which was defended by the Spanish corps of Count Urbino Cartaojal.
In 1562 Don Francisco de Ibarra, the son of one of the celebrated founders of Zacatecas, explored the region and founded the Villa de Guadiana, near the old settlement of Nombre de Dios which soon became known as the Nueva Vizcaya in memory of the Spanish province of where his family came.
Alfonso gathered his forces at Toledo and marched down to Alarcos ( al-Arak, in Arabic ), near the Guadiana river, a place which marked the Southern limit of his kingdom and where a fortress was under construction.
Guadiana and are
Minor low-lying river valleys close to the Portuguese border are located on the Tagus and the Río Guadiana.
Most of these rivers flow from east to west disgorging in the Atlantic ; from north to south, the primary rivers are the Minho, Douro, Tagus and the Guadiana.
In Spain three autonomous communities, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura and Andalusia ) ( comprising the provinces of Ciudad Real, Badajoz, Huelva and to a small extent Albacete ) are crossed by the Guadiana.
Parque Guadiana is also the habitat for many fauna species, especially the avifauna species that are found within the park.
Las Tablas de Daimiel are provided with two types of water making an unusual ecosystem: the Guadiana contributes fresh water, while its tributary the Gigüela is brackish.
Guadiana and within
* the Southern Meseta ( within a range of 200 to 900 metres altitude ) is drained by the Tagus River ( running east to west ) from Spain, and the Guadiana River ( running north to south ), comprising the Lower Tagus and Sado Basins.
But even hidro-geological characteristics indicate that the Upper Guadiana may not be the principle river within the system.
Various conservation groups expressed the view that the solution should be found within the Guadiana basin.
Guadiana and Spanish
The Guadiana (, ), or Odiana, is an international river located on the Portuguese – Spanish border, separating Extremadura and Andalucia ( Spain ) from Alentejo and Algarve ( Portugal ).
The Spanish Regency at Cádiz had sent General Joaquín Blake, with the two divisions of Zayas and Lardizábal, by sea to Ayamonte on the mouth of the Guadiana.
The administrative center is the town of Alcoutim, located at the extreme eastern part of the municipality on the Spanish frontier, just across the Guadiana River from the Spanish town of Sanlúcar de Guadiana in Huelva Province.
Other Spanish DOs where Monastrell is a permitted variety include Binissalem-Mallorca and Plà i Llevant in the Balearic Islands, Bullas, Catalunya, Cariñena, Costers del Segre, Manchuela, Penedès and Ribera del Guadiana.
Three Spanish cavalry regiments hovered around the bank of the Guadiana and attempted to turn the French left, but Lasalle and his men held on to their tenuous positions.
The municipality is delimited in the north by Vila Viçosa, east by the Guadiana River and Spanish border, south by Mourão and Reguengos de Monsaraz, and west by the municipality of Redondo.
Before the construction of the Guadiana International Bridge ( in its neighboring upstream municipality of Castro Marim ) it used to be the easiest access to Portugal from Andalusia ( via ferry from the Spanish city of Ayamonte across the river ).
Faced with a possible fine from the EU, the Spanish Environment ministry presented in 1995 a transfer project ( an aqueduct and miles of pipes between the Tagus and the Mancha Húmeda ) to bring water to the upper Guadiana basin.
Guadiana and Portugal
Finally, in 1267, a treaty was signed in Badajoz, determining that the southern border between Castile and Portugal should be the River Guadiana, as it is today.
* 1267 – King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign a treaty determining the southern border between Portugal and Spain as the Guadiana River, a border that remains to this day.
The Guadiana marks the border of Spain and Portugal twice as it runs to the ocean: first, between the River Caia and Cuncos ravine, then later from the River Chança until its mouth.
The Guadiana, a major river of Spain and Portugal that delineates part of the border, lay across Beresford's line of march.
Ataegina was worshiped in Lusitania and Betica ; there were also sanctuaries dedicated to Ataegina in Elvas ( Portugal ), and Mérida and Cáceres in Spain, along with other places, especially near the Guadiana river.
Alandroal Municipality () is a municipality in Portugal located on the eastern frontier with Spain along the Guadiana River in the Central Alentejo region.
They lived in the south of modern Portugal, in the east of the province of Alentejo, along the Guadiana valley ( Extramadura and Andalusia ), and Extremadura proper ( Spain ).
Guadiana and while
Its northern border was along the Douro river, while on its eastern side its border passed through Salmantica ( Salamanca ) and Caesarobriga ( Talavera de la Reina ) to the Anas ( Guadiana ) river.
A classic theory introduced by Pliny the Elder, was that the river originated from the Lagunas de Ruidera and divided into two branches: the Upper Guadiana () and the Guadiana, while separated by a subterranean course.
Guadiana and ;
Badajoz (, formerly written Badajos in English ; ) is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain, situated close to the Portuguese border, on the left bank of the river Guadiana, and the Madrid – Lisbon railway.
Such fires were not a new phenomenon in the region ; they had affected the peatlands alongside the Guadiana in previous years, but by reappearing in the National Park, the fires represented another symptom of the wetland's degradation.
Guadiana and .
The major rivers flowing westward through the Meseta Central include the Duero, the Tagus, the Guadiana, and the Guadalquivir.
Other major rivers include the Douro, the Minho and the Guadiana, similar to the Tagus in that all originate in Spain.
It occupies a slight eminence, crowned by the ruins of a Moorish castle, and overlooking the Guadiana.
The exact source of the river in Castilla-La Mancha is disputed, but it is generally believed to spring in the Ojos del Guadiana, Villarrubia de los Ojos municipal term, Ciudad Real Province, Castile – La Mancha, about 608 meters in altitude.
Another of the origin theories, postulated that the Ciguela and Záncara Rivers were the sources of the Guadiana.
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