EBRO RIVER

Jan 10, 2010 Lorenzo Martinez Bernal RIOS - RESERVOIRS - LAGOS 8

EBRO RIVER

The Ebro River is the second longest river of the more Iberian Peninsula, behind the Tajo. Runs entirely Spain, which it ranks first among the rivers originating and flowing sharply in this country, both its length and its flow.

LIFE OF ARAGON

IF SOMETHING IS Carazon FILLS ME TO ENJOY THE RIVER EBRO AND ITS ENVIRONMENT

Crosses the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, through the valley that bears his name, located in a depression. Follows a northwest-southeast, from the Picos de Europa (Cantabrian mountains), which has its origin, to the Mediterranean Sea, pouring in forming the Ebro Delta.

The river has a total length of 930 km. Its watershed is the largest in Spain, a surface 83.093 km2. It is distributed, in addition to this country, Andorra and France.

The Ebro flows through the Spanish autonomous communities of Cantabria (where is born), Castilla y León, The Rioja, Navarra, Aragon and Catalonia (where it empties), In addition Ebro river basin also encompasses territories of the Basque Country (practically all Alava) and Valencia (N, O. Castellon). Two capitals of autonomous region, Logroño and Zaragoza, They are bathed by the river.

Traditionally it has been considered that the Ebro is born in Fontibre (from Latin, Fontes Iberis or sources of the Ebro, in Greek, Έβρος which means literally wide), spring located 880 m altitude in the municipality of Hermandad de Campoo de Suso, in Cantabria.

Today origin is set at the sources of the river Híjar, located in said cntabro municipality, some 27 km before Reinosa. Specific, the river begins its course in the mountains of Peña Labra, a 1.980 m high, in the Picos de Europa. The Hijar River rises in the Pico Tres Mares, It is so called because of this peak water is poured to the three Spanish seas, Atlantic, Cantabrian and Mediterranean.

The Ebro runs through the towns of Reinosa, Miranda de Ebro, It makes its entrance in La Rioja by Las Conchas, place where formerly lagoon BiLibyan he was to be the river blocked by Montes Obarenes; continues its meandering course between wide by Haro and Labastida to go next to Logrono, Calahorra, Alfaro and enter the Navarra Tudela bathing, the Bocal, Ribaforada, Cabanillas, Fustiñana, Buñuel to enter Aragon Gallur, Alagón, Torres de Berrellén, Utebo, Zaragoza, Caspe, Mequinenza, Riba-roja de Ebro, Flix, Asco, Mora de Ebro, Cherta, Tortosa, Amposta, San Jaime de Enveija and Deltebre (La Cava and Jesús i Maria).

Taxed in the Mediterranean Sea, up to Deltebre, in the province of Tarragona. Its mouth is in the form of delta, occupied mostly by Buda Island, dividing the stream into two main arms, Golas called North and South.

He 20% the surface of this delta is legally protected through the Ebro Delta, located in the vicinity of Tortosa, Amposta and San Jaime de Enveija. This natural area was created in 1983 by the Government of Catalonia and is the most important wetland in Catalonia, with a total area of 7.802 hectares.

He 80% Delta remaining corresponds to urban and agricultural soils, with special reference to the rice fields, extending along 21.000 hectares.

One of the first Cistercian monasteries in Spain, the Royal Monastery of Our Lady of Rueda, It is located on the banks of the Ebro in Aragon.

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