What is Guadalquivir?

Information about Guadalquivir

Guadalquivir
الوادي الكبي?
The Guadalquivir in Seville The Guadalquivir in Seville
Country \|	Spain
Region \|	Andalucia
Major cities \|	CÃ³rdoba,Sevilla
Length \|	657 km (408 mi)
Watershed	56,978 km (21999 mi)
Discharge at	Seville
- average	164.3 m/s (5802 ft/s)
Source \|
- location	CaÃ±ada de las Fuentes in the Cazorla Mountains,JaÃ©n Province
Mouth	Atlantic Ocean
- location	at SanlÃºcar de Barameda
Localisation of the Guadalquivir

The Guadalquivir is the fourth longest river in Spain (after the Tagus, Ebro and Douro), and the longest in Andalusia. The name comes from the Arabic al-wādi al-kabīr (الوادي الكبير), 'The Great River'. The river was called Betis (or Baetis) from Pre-Roman times to the Al-Andalus period, giving its name to the Hispania Baetica Roman province.

The Guadalquivir is 657 kilometers long and drains an area of about 58,000 square kilometers. It begins at CaÃ±ada de las Fuentes in the Cazorla mountain range (JaÃ©n), passes through CÃ³rdoba and Seville and ends at the fishing village of Bonanza, in SanlÃºcar de Barrameda, flowing into the Gulf of CÃ¡diz, in the Atlantic Ocean. The marshy lowlands at the river's end are known as "Las Marismas". It borders DoÃ±ana National Park reserve.

The Guadalquivir river is the only great navigable river in Spain. Currently it is navigable up as far as Seville, but in Roman times it was navigable to CÃ³rdoba.

The ancient city of Tartessos was said to be have been located at the mouth of the Guadalquivir, although its site has not yet been found.

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Guadalquivir river, CÃ³rdoba	Guadalquivir and old Roman Bridge, CÃ³rdoba	Guadalquivir River in Coria del Rio, Seville (navigable)	Guadalquivir and Quinto Centenario Bridge, Seville
Cormorants in lower Guadalquivir (DoÃ±ana National Park)

Preceded by Rotsee, Lucerne Switzerland 2001	World Rowing Championships Venue 2002	Succeeded by Idroscalo, Milan Italy 2003

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More information from the United Nations Environmental Program.

Seville / Sevilla

The Alamillo Bridge spans the Guadalquivir river.

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("From Andalusian: "No ma dejado" - I was not abandoned")
Location

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Motto
"Plus Ultra" (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
Anthem
"Marcha Real" ¹
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Comunidad AutÃ³noma de AndalucÃa

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Motto: AndalucÃa por sÃ, para EspaÃ±a y la humanidad
(Andalusia by herself, for Spain, and for humankind)
Anthem: La bandera blanca y verde
Capital Seville

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State Party Spain
Type Cultural
Criteria i, ii, iii, iv
Reference 313
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 1984 (8th Session)
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cubic metre (symbol mÂ³) is the SI derived unit of volume. It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre in length. In the United States it is spelled cubic meter. An alternate name, which allowed a different usage with SI prefixes, was the stÃ¨re.
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A cubic foot is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the UK. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 foot (0.3048 m) in length.
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JaÃ©n is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of CÃ³rdoba, Ciudad Real, Albacete, and Granada. Its capital is JaÃ©n.

Its area is 13,484 kmÂ².
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Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres (41.1 million square miles), it covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface.
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river is a natural waterway that transits water through a landscape from higher to lower elevations. It is an integral component of the water cycle. The water within a river is generally collected from precipitation through surface runoff, groundwater recharge (as seen at baseflow
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Motto
"Plus Ultra" (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
Anthem
"Marcha Real" ¹
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Tagus
Spanish: Tajo, Portuguese: Tejo

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Ebro
Catalan: Ebre

Ebro Delta from space

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Douro
Spanish: Duero, Portuguese: Douro

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al-‘Arabiyyah in written Arabic (Kufic script):
Pronunciation: /alˌʕa.raˈbij.ja/
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
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Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأندلس al-andalus) was the Arabic name given to those parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Muslims, or Moors, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492.
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Hispania Baetica was one of three Imperial Roman provinces in Hispania, (modern Iberia). Hispania Baetica was bordered to the west by Lusitania (modern Portugal), and to the northeast by Hispania Tarraconensis.
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province (Latin, provincia, pl. provinciae) was the basic, and until the Tetrarchy (circa 296), largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of the Italian peninsula (long without full citizenship).
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Cazorla, Spain

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Country Spain
Province JaÃ©n
Municipality Cazorla
Area
- City 303 km (0 sq mi)
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JaÃ©n

JaÃ©n Cathedral

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Location

Coordinates : 37Â° 46’N , 3Â°47′0
Time Zone : CET (GMT +1)
- summer: CEST (GMT +2)
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Native name JaÃ©n (Spanish)
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SanlÃºcar de Barrameda

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Location of SanlÃºcar de Barrameda
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Native name SanlÃºcar de Barrameda (Spanish)
Spanish name SanlÃºcar de Barrameda
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