Guadiana
Guadiana River | |
Rio Guadiana | |
The River Guadiana in the aurie aroond Serpa, Portugal
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Name oreegin: Arabic derivative o Wadi Ana, meanin River Ana | |
Kintras | Portugal, Spain |
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Tributaries | |
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- right | |
Soorce | Ojos del Guadiana |
- location | Villarrubia de los Ojos, Castile–La Mancha, Spain |
- elevation | 608 m (1,995 ft) |
- coordinates | 39°7′36″N 3°43′36″W / 39.12667°N 3.72667°W |
Mooth | Gulf of Cádiz |
- location | Vila Real de Santo António, Algarve, Portugal |
- elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
- coordinates | 37°10′12″N 7°23′37″W / 37.17000°N 7.39361°WCoordinates: 37°10′12″N 7°23′37″W / 37.17000°N 7.39361°W |
Lenth | 818 km (508 mi) |
Depth | 17 m (56 ft) |
Basin | 67,733 km2 (26,152 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
- average | 600 m3/s (21,189 cu ft/s) |
- max | 1,500 m3/s (52,972 cu ft/s) |
- min | 20 m3/s (706 cu ft/s) |
Aboot 83 percent, 55,000 square kilometre (21,000 sq mi), o the River Guadiana wattershed is in Spain; the rest is in Portugal
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The Guadiana River (Spaingie pronunciation: [ɡwaˈðjana], Portuguese: [ɡwɐðiˈɐ̃nɐ]), or Odiana, is an internaitional river defining a long stretch o the Portugal-Spain border, separatin Extremadura an Andalucia (Spain) frae Alentejo an Algarve (Portugal). The river's basin extends frae the eastren portion o Extremadura tae the soothren provinces o the Algarve; the river an its tributaries flaw frae east tae wast, then sooth throu Portugal tae the border touns o Vila Real de Santo António (Portugal) an Ayamonte (Spain), whaur it flaws intae the Gulf o Cádiz. Wi a coorse that covers a distance o 829 kilometre (515 mi), it is the fowert-langest in the Iberian peninsula, an its hydrological basin extends ower an area o approximately 68,000 square kilometre (26,000 sq mi) (the majority o which lies within Spain).