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| Guadarrama | |
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 Río Guadarrama. Community of Madrid, Spain | |
 Path of the Guadarrama | |
| Location | |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Community of Madrid Castilla-La Mancha Province of Toledo |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Siete Peak (Sierra de Guadarrama) |
| • elevation | 1,900 m (6,200 ft) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Tagus |
• elevation | 500 m (1,600 ft) |
| Length | 131.80 km (81.90 mi) |
| Basin size | 1,708 km2 (659 sq mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Aulencia |
The Guadarrama is a river in Spain. A tributary of the Tagus, the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula, Guadarrama has its source in the Siete Peak, part of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the Community of Madrid, in the central part of the country, at an altitude of 1,900 metres (6,200 ft).
Course
The Guadarrama flows from north to south for 131.80 kilometres (81.90 mi) through the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha and the Province of Toledo, where it empties into the Tagus.
Its middle course is a protected area within the Regional Park of the Middle Course of the Guadarrama River and Its Surroundings (Template:Lang-es), which is one of the three regional parks within the Community of Madrid.[1] The basin area is about 1,708 square kilometres (659 sq mi) Its main tributary is the Aulencia River, which flows entirely within the Community of Madrid and supplies water to the reservoir of Valmayor.
References
- ^ "Parque Regional del curso medio del río Guadarrama y su entorno" [Regional Park of the Middle Course of the Guadarrama River and Its Surroundings] (in Spanish). madrid.org.
External links
Media related to Guadarrama River at Wikimedia Commons
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