The
Guadalquivir is the third longest river in Spain (after the Tagus and Ebro),
and the longest in Andalusia. The name comes from Arabic, meaning 'The
Great River'.
The
Guadalquivir is 657 kilometers long. It begins at Cañada de las
Fuentes in the Cazorla mountain range (Jaén), passes through Córdoba
and Seville and ends at the fishing village of Bonanza, in Sanlúcar
de Barrameda, flowing into the Gulf of Cádiz, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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 Córdoba. |
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