Sabor River, ''Rio Sabor'' in Portuguese, is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

that rises in

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and enters

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

in the

Natural Park of Montesinho The Montesinho Natural Park ( pt, Parque Natural de Montesinho) is a protected area located in the municipalities of Vinhais and Bragança, northeastern Portugal. Sections of the southern slopes of the Serra da Coroa (Sierra de la Culebra) fall ...

, in the northeast of the country. It is a tributary of the right bank of the

Douro River The Douro (, , ; es, Duero ; la, Durius) is the highest-flow river of the Iberian Peninsula. It rises near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province, central Spain, meanders south briefly then flows generally west through the north-west part of ...

, passing near the city of Bragança from where it receives the

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of the

River Fervença A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wa ...

, going to empty close to the

Torre de Moncorvo Torre de Moncorvo () is a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in the district of Bragança (district), Bragança in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,572, in an area of 531.56 km². The present mayor is Nuno Gonçalves, elec ...

downstream of the

Pocinho Dam Pocinho Dam ( pt, Barragem do Pocinho, links=no) is a concrete gravity dam on the Douro, where the river forms the border line between the districts of Guarda and Bragança. It is located in the municipality Vila Nova de Foz Côa, in Guarda Dis ...

, in the village of

Foz do Sabor Foz () is a town and municipality in the A Mariña Central comarca in the Galician province of Lugo. It has been historically linked to the Ancient Province of Mondoñedo and also linked to the arrival of Briton immigrants during the Dark Age ...

. The Sabor River basin is a large basin (3170 km2) located in the northeast of Portugal and used mostly for

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.Hydrologic and Water Allocation Model to Assess Water Availability in the Sabor River Basin (Portugal), July 2019 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(13):2419, DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16132419 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334306104_Development_of_a_Hydrologic_and_Water_Allocation_Model_to_Assess_Water_Availability_in_the_Sabor_River_Basin_Portugal

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