Guadalquivir
The Guadalquivir is a Spanish Fleuve which throws in the Atlantic Ocean in the west of the Straits of Gibraltar.
Geography
Its 657 km length drains a basin of almost 58.000 km ².It takes its source in the Sierra of Cazorla and is thrown in the Atlantic Ocean with Sanlúcar de Barrameda. It sprinkles Cordoue and Seville and its principal affluents is the rivers Genil, Guadalbullón and Guadiana Menor. It skirts the National park Doñana at the end of its course.
Guadalquivir is the only large river of really navigable Spain. Navigation is currently possible only until Seville, but the Romans went up until Cordoue.
History
Its name comes from Arabic Al-wadi Al-Kabir (الوادي الكبير), " large the fleuve". The Romans called it Bætis, of the name of the province Bétique which corresponds today to the Andalusia.
Believed
In February 1963, its flow maximum reached 5.300 m 3 /s with Cordoue and 6.700 m 3 /s in Seville. Moreover, of many risings flooded Seville, justifying in 1948 the filling of the river on several kilometers, since Chapina in the north of the city, to the district of Triana, involving the deviation of the river a few kilometers in the west of Seville while keeping, in the south of the city, at the place of the commercial port, a channel giving access of the boats.In 1992, 4 fill km were evacuated and the banks refitted at the time of the universal Expo. Guadalquivir partly found its bed of origin, but its flow is controlled by it.
See too
- List of rivers in the world
Sources
Simple: Guadalquivir
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