IberiaNature A guide to the natural history of Spain
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River Duero

The River Duero (Durius-Latin, Douro-Portuguese) is the third longest and second largest river in the Iberian Peninsula at 765 km . Its source is at "Fuentes del Duero" in the Picos de Urbión in the Sístema Ibérico (Soria, near the border with Burgos and la Rioja). After cutting south-eastwards some 50km and passing through Soria, it turns west and slowly heads through the Northern Meseta , flowing through Almazán, Aranda de Duero, Tordesillas, and Zamora , and into Portugal, where after passing throrough a sparsely populated stretch of narrow canyons, finally empties into the Atlantic at Porto . The Duero watershed in Spain covers 78,954 square km, around 16% of the country, second to the Ebro. MORE TO COME

Strabo on the Duero

  • ...the (River) Durius, which, coming from afar, flows by Numantia and many other settlements of the Celtiberians and Vaccaenas, and is navigable for large boats for a distance of about eight hundred stadia inland. ( Note. Eight(?) stadia were equivalent to a mile. The Duero isn't navegable now, except along some Portuguese stretches.
  • The greater part of it ( Iberia ) in fact is rugged and river-washed; for it is through these regions that the Anas flows, and also the Tagus, and the several rivers next to them, which, rising in Celtiberia, flow down to the western sea. Among these are the Durius, which flows past Numantia and Serguntia....

The Duero as it passed through Arribes de Duero in Salamanca

See also rural accommodation in the Arribes del Duero

Tributaries of the Duero in Spain

River

Source

Outlet

Km

Adaja

Between la Serrota and S. de Avila

Valdestillas

163

Tormes

Fuente Tormella

Villarino de los Aires

247

Pisuerga

Sierra Albas , Puntas Luengas and Peña Labra

Cerca de Simancas

275

Esla

Peña Prieta

Villalcampo

275

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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