Ebro
| Ebro | ||
 Ebro in Saragossa - in the foreground the bridge Puente de Piedra and the Basílica del Pilar |
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| Data | ||
| location | northeastern Spain | |
| River system | Ebro | |
| source |
Sierra del Cordel 43 ° 2 ′ 15 ″ N , 4 ° 22 ′ 12 ″ W. |
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| Source height | 1880 msnm | |
| muzzle |
Ebro Delta , Mediterranean Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 43 " N , 0 ° 52 ′ 9" E 40 ° 43 ′ 43 " N , 0 ° 52 ′ 9" E |
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| Mouth height | 0 msnm | |
| Height difference | 1880 m | |
| Bottom slope | 2.1 ‰ | |
| length | 910 km | |
| Catchment area | 85,362 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
426 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Nela , Ega , Aragón , Arba , Gállego , Segre | |
| Right tributaries | Rudrón , Oca , Tirón , Jalón , Río Huerva , Río Aguasvivas , Río Martín , Guadalope , Río Matarraña | |
| Big cities | Logroño , Zaragoza | |
| Medium-sized cities | Reinosa , Miranda de Ebro , Calahorra , Tudela | |
The Ebro ( cat. Ebre , from Latin Iberus , Basque ibar , "valley, river valley") is a large river in northeastern Spain . At around 910 kilometers, it is the second longest river on the Iberian Peninsula (after the Tagus ). Its catchment area has an area of 85,362 square kilometers . It probably got its name from the Carthaginians as part of the treaty between Carthage and Rome before the second Punic War, in which the Ebro was established as the border. The name was adopted at that time by the Basques, who had always lived there and named the river in their pre-Indo-European language.
geography
course
The Ebro rises from a two-part - partly underground - source river ( Río Híjar ) in Fontibre (from Latin fontes iberis , "Ebro springs"); if the other arm of this source river is included, its origin lies at around 1880 meters above sea level on the Tres Mares mountain in the Sierra de Híjar in the Cantabrian Mountains . In the town of Reinosa (about 100 kilometers south of Santander ) in the province of Cantabria , the rivers Híjar and Ebro meet. Coming from there it crosses the northeast of Castile-León and forms the northern border of the region and the wine-growing region of La Rioja to the Basque province of Álava and Navarra over long stretches . Behind Logroño he emerges from the mountains and passes the cities of Calahorra , Tudela , Saragossa and Tortosa from northwest to southeast . In its course through the autonomous regions of Aragon and Catalonia , the water-rich river forms the central drainage artery of the Ebro basin , located between the Pyrenees and the Iberian Mountains , which is 200 kilometers long and around 50 kilometers wide and expands to the Pyrenees (see map below on the right).
From around Flix , it crosses the coastal mountains of the Sierra del Montsant for 40 kilometers . The Ebro flows into the Mediterranean near Amposta and Deltebre in the province of Tarragona , forming an estuary delta of over 300 km² . The Ebro Delta is one of the largest wetlands on the Mediterranean coast and has been a nature park since 1983. The river, which mainly flows from northwest to southeast, is dammed up by several dams and is hardly navigable. Trout in particular are angled in its tributaries .
Left side tributaries
The left-hand (northeastern) tributaries towards the Mediterranean are the Nela , Jerea , Bayas (estuary at Miranda de Ebro ), Zadorra , Ega , Aragón (with the largest north-east water contribution), Arba (estuary at Gallur ) , the Gállego (mouth near Saragossa ) and the Segre (with 265 kilometers the longest tributary). Shortly before the mouth of the Segre, the Cinca flows into it .
Right-hand tributaries
On the right-hand side tributaries are the rivers Híjar (mouth near Fontibre ), Rudrón , Oca (mouth near Oña), Tirón (mouth near Anguciana), Najerilla , Daroca , Iregua (mouth near Logroño ), Leza , Cidacos (mouth near Calahorra ), Alhama (estuary at Alfaro ), Queiles (estuary near Tudela ), Huecha (estuary near Alcalá de Moncayo), Jalón (largest water contribution; estuary near Alagón), Huerva (estuary near Saragossa), Aguasvivas , Martín , Guadalope (second largest Water contribution as a southwest tributary), Matarraña and Cañaletes (river) .
Reservoirs
The total of three Ebro reservoirs are located between Barcelona and Saragossa . They are used to generate electricity for the metropolis of Barcelona. They get their names from the communities located on the dam wall:
- The upper Embalse de Mequinenza reservoir
- The middle Pantà de Riba-roja , fed by the Cinca , Segre and Matarraña rivers .
- The lower Embalse de Flix reservoir .
history
According to the Ebro Treaty from the 3rd century BC The river could have formed the border between the spheres of influence of Rome and Carthage . The treaty played a crucial role in the outbreak of the Second Punic War .
The Battle of the Ebro to relieve Valencia in 1938 was the Republican government's last attempt to avert defeat in the civil war against Franco .
Ebro Gorge, Burgos Province
Ebro in Castile-Leon
Ebro near Briones, La Rioja
Ebro near Mendavia, Navarre
Ebro in Amposta
Ebro near Tortosa
Ebro near Mequinenza
Ebro Delta in the province of Tarragona
See also
Web links
- Ebro in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon from 1906
- Ebro in the Columbia Encyclopedia
