Guadalquivir
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| Guadalquivir | |
| الوادي الكبير | |
| River | |
 Guadalquivir River in Coria del Río
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| Name origin: = from wadi al-kabir, "great valley" in Arabic | |
| Country | Spain |
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| Region | Andalucia |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Guadiana Menor, Guadalbullón, Guadajoz, Genil, Corbones, Guadaira |
| - right | Guadalimar, Jándula, Yeguas, Guadalmellato, Guadiato, Bembézar, Viar, Rivera de Huelva, Guadiamar |
| Cities | Córdoba, Sevilla |
| Source | Cañada de las Fuentes |
| - location | Cazorla Mountains, Jaén |
| Mouth | Atlantic Ocean |
| - location | Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz |
| - elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
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| Length | 657 km (408 mi) |
| Basin | 56,978 km² (21,999 sq mi) |
| Discharge | for Seville |
| - average | 164.3 m³/s (5,802 cu ft/s) |
 Localisation of the Guadalquivir
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| Website: Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir | |
The Guadalquivir is the fifth longest river in Spain (after the Tagus, Ebro, Douro and Guadiana), and the longest in Andalucía. The Guadalquivir is 657 kilometers long and drains an area of about 58,000 square kilometers. It begins at Cañada de las Fuentes in the Cazorla mountain range (Jaén), passes through Córdoba and Sevilla and ends at the fishing village of Bonanza, in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, flowing into the Gulf of Cádiz, in the Atlantic Ocean. The marshy lowlands at the river's end are known as "Las Marismas". It borders Doñana 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 Córdoba.
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. Tartessos in Basque language means between seas ((Atlantic and Mediterranean))
[edit] Name
The name comes from the Arabic al-wādi al-kabīr (الوادي الكبير), 'The Great Valley'. Classical arabic Wadi is pronounced in present-day Maghreb as Oued, etimologically wadi coincides with kelt gwâ-dodh, ((sediment,place to wade through a river)), like the Dutch Wad, Waddenzee ((wading through the sea at low tide)). The Phoenicians named the river Baits, later Betis (or Baetis) from Pre-Roman times to the Al-Andalus period, giving its name to the Hispania Baetica Roman province. An older keltiberian name was Oba ((gold river)), leading to the assumption that etimologically Cordoba means city on the Oba ((Cart-Oba)).
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 Guadalquivir river, Córdoba |
 Guadalquivir and old Roman Bridge, Córdoba |
 Guadalquivir River in Coria del Río, Seville (navigable) |
 Guadalquivir and Quinto Centenario Bridge, Seville |
 Cormorants in lower Guadalquivir (Doñana National Park) |
 Guadalquivir river basin |
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