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This is an incomplete list of rivers that are at least partially in
Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...
. The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into. Rivers in the mainland
Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula (), ** * Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, def ...
can be divided into those belonging to the
Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...
watershed, those flowing into the
Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...
and those emptying into the
Cantabrian sea The Cantabrian Sea; french: Mer Cantabrique, gl, Mar Cantábrico, ast, Mar Cantábricu, eu, Kantauri. is the term used mostly in Spain to describe the coastal sea of the Atlantic Ocean that borders the northern coast of Spain and the southwe ...
(a marginal sea of the Atlantic off the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula). Tributaries are listed down the page in an downstream direction. The main stem river of a catchment is labelled as , left-bank tributaries are indicated by , right-bank tributaries by . Where a named river derives from the confluence of two differently named rivers these are labelled as and for the left and right forks (the rivers on the left and right, relative to an observer facing downstream). The
transboundary river A transboundary river is a river that crosses at least one political border, either a border within a state or an international boundary. Bangladesh has the highest number of these rivers, including two of the world's largest rivers, the Ganges and ...
s partially running through Portugal or France and/or along the borders of Spain with those countries are labelled as . The list begins with the northernmost item of the Mediterranean watershed (close to the French border) and moves clockwise around the Iberian Peninsula. Outside from the Iberian peninsula mainland, streams in the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla are seasonal watercourses. The Santa Eulàlia river in Ibiza was traditionally considered as the single proper 'river' in the Balearic Islands, but it lost its constant flow by the late 20th-century.


Mediterranean watershed


Catalan basins

This includes the basins emptying in the
Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...
located in the coastline north from the
Ebro , name_etymology = , image = Zaragoza shel.JPG , image_size = , image_caption = The Ebro River in Zaragoza , map = SpainEbroBasin.png , map_size = , map_caption = The Ebro ...
. It has to be noted this leaves out the
Garonne The Garonne (, also , ; Occitan, Catalan, Basque, and es, Garona, ; la, Garumna or ) is a river of southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux – ...
and the Ebro, both draining parts of Inner Catalonia, as well as small streams in Catalonia emptying in the Mediterranean south from the Ebro. * Muga ( · 65 km) ** Manol ( · 42 km) *
Fluvià The Fluvià () is a river in Catalonia. It rises in the Serralada Transversal, passes through Olot and Besalú, and flows into the Mediterranean Sea near Sant Pere Pescador. The ancient city of Empúries Empúries ( ca, Empúries ) was a ...
( · 98 km) ** () ** ( · 30 km) ** () ** () * Ter ( · 209 km) ** () ** ( · 31 km) *** Núria *** Rigard ** Gurri () *** Mèder () ** Riera Major () ** **
Güell The Güell () is a river in Catalonia, Spain. It has a length of and passes through the city of Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onya ...
() **
Onyar The Onyar is a Spanish river in Girona, Catalonia that begins at the Guilleries massif at the apex of the Catalan Transversal Range and the Pre-Coastal Range. It joins the Ter at the city of Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan , Span ...
/''Oñar'' ( · 34 km) ** () ** () * Tordera ( · 50 km) ** ( 31 km) * Besòs ( · 50 km) ** Congost ( · 41 km) ** () ** ( · 28 km) ** Ripoll ( · 40 km) *
Llobregat The Llobregat () is the second longest river in Catalonia, Spain, after the Ter. It flows into the Mediterranean south of the city of Barcelona. Its name could have originated in an ancient Latin word meaning 'dark', 'sorrowful' or 'muddy', or ...
( · 157 km) ** () ** Merlès ( · 47 km) ** ( · 60 km) **
Cardener The Cardener is a river in Catalonia, Spain. Its source is at ''Les Fonts del Cardener'' in the municipality of La Coma i la Pedra (Solsonès) at an elevation of . It drains a basin of . It passes through the reservoir of Sant Ponç (25 hm3) ...
( · 87 km) **
Anoia Anoia () is a comarca (county) in central Catalonia, Spain, with its capital at Igualada. The comarca of l'Anoia is irrigated by the Anoia River; the leading industry is the making of paper. To the north are Solsonès and Bages, to the west, ...
( · 58 km) *
Foix Foix (; oc, Fois ; ca, Foix ) is a commune, the former capital of the County of Foix. It is the capital of the department of Ariège as it is the seat of the Préfecture of that department. Foix is located in the Occitanie region of south ...
( · 49 km) * Gaià/''Gayá'' () * Francolí ( · 58 km)


Ebro

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Ebro , name_etymology = , image = Zaragoza shel.JPG , image_size = , image_caption = The Ebro River in Zaragoza , map = SpainEbroBasin.png , map_size = , map_caption = The Ebro ...
( · 910 km) ** ( · 28 km; aside from joining the Ebro near Reinosa, the upstream traditional source of the very same Ebro in Fontibre han been recently redescribed as a water spring of the Híjar) ** ( · 35 km) ** Oca ( · 72 km) ** Nela ( · 74 km) ** Bayas ( · 58 km) **
Zadorra The Zadorra is a river tributary of the Ebro in the Basque Country at the north of the Iberian Peninsula. The river flows across province Álava all along (with the exception of Burgos' exclave La Puebla de Arganzon) till it pours into the Ebro n ...
( · 88 km) ** Tirón ( · 64 km) ** Najerilla/''Neila'' ( · 73 km) ** Ega ( · 115 km) **
Cidacos The Cidacos River is a tributary of the Ebro. Its source is Los Campos, in Soria, and it flows for 77 km (48 mi) until its reaches the Ebro at Calahorra (La Rioja). It flows through or past various towns like Villar del Río, Yanguas ...
( · 79 km) **
Aragón Aragon ( , ; Spanish and an, Aragón ; ca, Aragó ) is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises th ...
( · 197 km) *** · 51 km) *** Irati ( · 80 km) *** Arga ( · 149 km) ** Alhama ( · 79 km) ** Queiles ( · 42 km) ** ( · 80 km) ** Jalón ( · 224 km) *** Piedra ( · 66 km) *** ( · 64 km) *** Jiloca ( · 123 km) ** Huerva ( · 135 km) ** Gállego ( · 203 km) *** ( · 40 km) *** Sotón ( · 52 km) ** ( · 103 km) ** ( · 98 km) *** ( · 35 km) ** Guadalope ( · 182 km) *** Bergantes ( · 57 km) ** Segre ( · · 261 km) *** Valira/''Gran Valira'' ( · ) *** () *** ( · 30 km) *** () *** Noguera Pallaresa ( · 143 km) ***
Sió The Sió or Sió-csatorna (''Sió-Channel'') is a fully regulated river in midwest Hungary. It is the outlet, at the eastern end, of Lake Balaton, flowing out of the lake in Siófok. It flows into the river Danube near the city of Szekszárd. Sió ...
() *** Corb () *** Noguera Ribagorçana/''Noguera Ribagorzana'' ( · 130 km) **** () *** Set () *** Cinca ( · 177 km) **** ( · 66 km) ***** ( **** ( **** Ésera ( · 98 km) **** ( · 60 km) **** Alcanadre ( · 138 km) ** Matarranya/''Matarraña'' ( · 101 km)


Levante

This roughly includes the basins emptying in the Mediterranean Sea ranging from those emptying south from the Ebro to the intermittent seasonal watercourses characteristic of the areas near the border between Murcia and the Andalusian province of Almería. * Cenia/''Sénia'' () * Mijares/''Millars'' ( · 156 km) ** ( · 32 km) ** () ** () ** ( · 81 km) ***/''Montlleó'' ( · 83 km) *** () *** ( · 33 km) * () * Turia/''Guadalaviar'' (280km) ** ( · 99 km) ** () **
Ebrón The Ebrón River is a river of Spain, a tributary of the Turia River. It sources near Tormón, in the province of Teruel (Aragon). It appears in the ''comarca'' of the Rincón de Ademuz, province of Valencia (Valencian Community). It crosses t ...
() ** /''Vallanca'' () ** () * Júcar/''Xúquer'' ( · 498 km) ** Huécar ( · 31 km) ** Valdemembra ( · 103 km) **
Cabriel Cabriel () or Cabriol () is a tributary of the Júcar River in the province of Albacete, Spain. It has its source in the Montes Universales. See also * List of rivers of Spain This is an incomplete list of rivers that are at least partially i ...
( · 263 km) ** ( · 38 km) **/''Magro'' ( · 125 km) ***/''Cáñoles'' ( · 63 km) *
Serpis The Serpis () is a short coastal river in the provinces of Alicante and Valencia, in Spain. The river starts at the feet of the Carrasqueta, a mountain area southwest to Alcoi, by the confluence of the Polop and Troncal streams. In its initial pa ...
( · 75 km) *
Vinalopó The Vinalopó is a small river flowing through the Alicante province, of Spain. It flows from north to south and, with a length of 81 km., it is the longest of the rivers which flows for its entire length within the limits of this province. ...
( · 82 km) *
Segura Segura (, ; la, Thader; ar, شقورة, Shaqūrah, or ) is a medium-sized river in southeastern Spain. It has its source in the Sierra de Segura. Course The river begins at Santiago Pontones ( province of Jaén), passes Calasparra, C ...
( · 325 km) ** Mundo ( · 108 km) ** Alhárabe/''Moratalla'' () ** Mula ( · 61 km) ** Guadalentín/''Sangonera'' ( · 95 km)


Andalusian Mediterranean basins

* Almanzora ( · 105 km) *
Andarax The Andarax ( es, río Andarax)—also, in its lower reaches, Almería River or River Almería ( es, río Almería)—is a river in the provinces of Spain, province of Almería (province), Almería, Andalusia, Spain. It arises in the easternmost ...
( · 62 km) * ( · 47 km) *
Guadalfeo The Guadalfeo is a small river in the province of Granada, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further ...
( · 72 km) **
Trevélez Trevélez is a village in the province of Granada, Spain. Its population in 2011 was estimated at 823. The river Trevélez flows through the village. They are located in the western part of the Alpujarras region. Two of the highest mountains in ...
( · 33 km) *** Poqueira () * ( · 36 km) * Guadalmedina ( · 48 km) * Guadalhorce ( · 154 km) ** ( · 43 km) * Guadiaro ( · 79 km) **
Guadalevín The Guadalevín is a tributary of the river Guadiaro in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. Its gorge divides the city of Ronda where it is spanned by three bridges, '' Puente Nuevo'', '' Puente Viejo'' and ''Puente Romano''. The following is a translati ...
** ( · 48 km) ** ( · 48 km)


Atlantic watershed

This section features the rivers flowing into the
Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...
, ranging from the Punta de Tarifa (the meeting point of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic) to the Punta de Estaca de Bares (the conventional boundary between the Atlantic of the
Cantabrian Sea The Cantabrian Sea; french: Mer Cantabrique, gl, Mar Cantábrico, ast, Mar Cantábricu, eu, Kantauri. is the term used mostly in Spain to describe the coastal sea of the Atlantic Ocean that borders the northern coast of Spain and the southwe ...
, one of the former's marginal seas).


Gulf of Cádiz

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Guadalete The Guadalete River is located almost entirely in the Spanish Province of Cádiz, rising in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park at an elevation of about , and running for into the Bay of Cádiz at El Puerto de Santa Maria, north of the city of C ...
( · 173 km) ** Majaceite * San Pedro *
Guadalquivir The Guadalquivir (, also , , ) is the fifth-longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-longest river with its entire length in Spain. The Guadalquivir is the only major navigable river in Spain. Currently it is navigable from the Gul ...
( · 657 km) ** ( · 182 km) ** Guadalimar ( · 167 km) *** ( · 127 km) ** ( · 74 km) ** ( · 70 km) ** ( · 90 km) ** ( · 76 km) ** Guadalmellato ( · 111 km) ** ( · 114 km) ** ( · 123 km) ** ( · 111 km) ** Genil ( · 337 km) *** Darro () ** ( · 58 km) ** ( · 117 km) ** ( · 61 km) **
Guadaíra The Guadaíra is a river that runs through the province of Seville, in Andalusia, southern Spain. Its name contains the same ''guad'' root as the much larger Rio Guadalquivir, coming from the Arabic word ''wadi'', meaning "river valley". The riv ...
( · 89 km) **
Guadiamar The Guadiamar is a river of Andalusia, Spain, and a tributary of the Guadalquivir. Its course runs entirely within the Province of Seville, flowing from Sierra Morena through the eastern border of Doñana National Park. Mining disaster In 1998, t ...
( · 60 km) * Tinto ( · 93 km) *
Odiel The Odiel ( es, Río Odiel) is a river in the Atlantic basin in southern Spain, more precisely in the province of Huelva, Andalusia. It originates at Marimateos in the Sierra de Aracena at an elevation of above sea level. At the Punta del S ...
( · 121 km) * () * Guadiana ( · · 818 km) **
Cigüela The Cigüela or Gigüela is a 225 km long river in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, tributary to the Guadiana. Its source is near the village Puerto de Cabrejas, Iberian System, Cuenca Province. The Cigüela along with the Záncara, its main tribu ...
() *** Záncara () **** () **** ( **** Córcoles () ***** Ojuelo () ** () ** () ** () ** () ** Guadalupe () ** Zújar () ** () ** Gévora/''Xévora'' ( · ) ** Ardila ( · · km) *** ( · · km) ** Chanza ( · )


Tagus

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Tagus The Tagus ( ; es, Tajo ; pt, Tejo ; see below) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales near Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally west with two main south-westward sections, to e ...
/''Tajo''/''Tejo'' ( · · 1007 km; of which 816 km run through Spain and 47 km through the Portugal–Spain border) ** Gallo ( · 98 km) **
Guadiela The Guadiela is a river in the Iberian Peninsula, a left-bank tributary of the Tagus and the latter's major upper-course tributary. The Guadiela has its source in the , near Cueva del Hierro, at the Fuente Pinilla site. It flows from East to West ...
( · 117 km) *** ( · 36 km) *** ( · 62 km) **** ( · 40 km) *** ( · 71 km) **
Jarama Jarama () is a river in central Spain. It flows north to south, and passes east of Madrid where the El Atazar Dam is built on a tributary, the Lozoya River. It flows into the river Tagus in Aranjuez. The Manzanares is a tributary of the Jaram ...
( · 194 km) *** Lozoya ( · 91 km) ***
Guadalix The Guadalix is a river of Spain located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, a right-bank tributary of the Jarama. It springs out of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the valley flanked by the , el , the Alto de la Genciana and the Cordal de la Va ...
( · 42 km) *** Henares ( · 160 km) **** ( · 39 km) **** ( · 38 km) **** ( · 43 km) **** ( · 53 km) ****
Sorbe The Sorbe is a right-bank tributary of the Henares, located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula. It forms part of the Tagus river basin. It has its source in the easternmost foothills of the Sistema Central at roughly 1,310 m above sea level, ...
( · 80 km) **** () **** Torote ( · 48 km) *** Manzanares ( · 87 km) ***
Tajuña The Tajuña (; from the Latin ''Tagonius'') is a river in central Spain, flowing through the provinces of Guadalajara and Madrid. It is a tributary of the river Jarama which in turn is a tributary of the Tagus. It rises in the Sierra de Solorio, n ...
( · 226 km) **** Ungría ( · km) ** Algodor ( · 96 km) **
Guadarrama Guadarrama is a town and municipality in the Cuenca del Guadarrama comarca, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Its population is 13,032 (winter, according to a 2006 census); the population swells to approximately 60,000 in summer. Its name co ...
( · 96 km) *** () ** ( · 67 km) ** Alberche ( · 182 km) *** Gaznata () *** Cofio ( · 51 km) *** Perales ( · 29 km) ** Tiétar ( · 170 km) *** () *** () *** () *** Guadyerbas ( · 45 km) *** ( · 27 km) *** () *** () ** Almonte ( · 160 km) *** ( · 84 km) **** Gibranzos ( · 37 km) **** ( · 52 km) *** ( · 56 km) ** Alagón ( · 201 km) *** () *** ( · 37 km) *** ( · 70 km) *** ( · 71 km) **** ( · 40 km)


Douro

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Douro 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 o ...
/''Duero'' ( · · 897 km of which 572 km run through Spain and 112 km through the Portugal–Spain border) ** Duratón ( · 103 km) ** Cega ( · 133 km) *** Cerquilla River (30 km) *** ( · 88 km) **
Pisuerga The Pisuerga is a river in northern Spain, the Duero's second largest tributary. It rises in the Cantabrian Mountains in the province of Palencia, autonomous region of Castile and León. Its traditional source is called Fuente Cobre, but it has ...
( · 275 km) *** ( · 71 km) **** ( · 58 km) *** Odra ( · 65 km) **** ( · 34 km) *** Arlanzón ( · 122 km) **** ( · 42 km) **** ( · 50 km) **** Arlanza ( · 159 km) ***** () ***** () ***** () *** Carrión ( · 178 km) **** ( · 68 km) *** Esgueva ( · 100 km) **
Adaja The Adaja is a river of Spain located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, a major left-bank tributary of the Douro. Featuring a total length of 163 km, its river basin drains an area of 5,328 km2. It has its source in the so-called Fuent ...
( · 163 km) *** Eresma ( · 124 km) **** Voltoya () ** ( · 100 km) ** Trabancos ( · 77 km) ** ( · 63 km) **
Valderaduey The Valderaduey is a river in central Spain which flows into the Douro on its right bank. In the year 949, an earthquake altered the course of the river. Geography The Valderaduey originates on the mountain in Renedo de Valderaduey municip ...
( · 146 km) *** Navajos/''Ahogaborricos''/''Bustillo'' ( · 51 km) *** ( · 115 km) *** Salado ( · 35 km) ** Esla ( · 275 km) *** Bernesga ( · 76 km) **** () **** ( · 60 km) *** Cea ( · 175 km) ***
Órbigo , name_etymology = , image = Union del Rio Omaña y Rio Luna.JPG , image_size = 250px , image_caption = The union of the rivers Luna and Omaña at this point form the Órbigo river , map = Órbigo ...
( · 97 km) **** ( · 50 km) **** () **** ( · 64 km) **** ( · 95 km) ***
Tera TERA is a shielded twisted pair connector for use with Category 7 twisted-pair data cables, developed by The Siemon Company and standardised in 2003 by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) with the reference IEC 61076-3-104. Th ...
( · 138 km) ****
Negro In the English language, ''negro'' is a term historically used to denote persons considered to be of Black African heritage. The word ''negro'' means the color black in both Spanish and in Portuguese, where English took it from. The term can be ...
( · 51 km) **** () · 41 km) *** ( · 68 km) ****
Mena MENA, an acronym in the English language, refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa. It is also known as WANA, SWANA, or NAWA, which alternatively refers to the Middle East as Western Asia (or a ...
() · 21 km) **
Tormes The Tormes is a Spanish river, that starts in Prado Tormejón, in the mountain range of Gredos, Navarredonda de Gredos, province of Ávila. It crosses the provinces of Avila and Salamanca, ending at the Duero river, at a place known locally as Am ...
( · 247 km) **
Águeda Águeda () is a city and a municipality in Portugal. According to the Portuguese 2011 census, the municipality of Águeda had 47,729 inhabitants, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 14,504 (2001 data), while the remainder is distri ...
( · 132 km) ** Huebra ( · 122 km) ** Tâmega/''Támega'' ( · · 145 km of which 52 km run through Spain)


Lima

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Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...
/''Limia'' ( · · 126 km of which 41 km run through Spain)


Minho-Sil

* Minho/''Miño'' ( · · 345 km of which the last 75.5 km form the Portugal–Spain border) ** ( · 30 km) ** ( · 42 km) ** Sil ( · 225 km) *** ( · 58 km) **** Noceda () ***
Cúa Cúa (founded in 1690) is a small city capital of the Urdaneta Municipality, located in the Miranda State (Estado Miranda) in the north of Venezuela with an altitude of 490 m. Cúa is noted for warm and clear weather, with year-round sunshine and ...
( · 60 km) *** ( · 63 km) *** ( · 93 km) *** Lorc ( · 50 km) *** Mao ( · 31 km) *** Cabe ( · 49 km) **** ( · 30 km) ** Avia ( · 38 km) ** Arnoia ( · 88 km) ** () ** Barxas/''Troncoso''/''Trancoso'' ( · )


Rias Baixas and Rias Altas

* Verdugo (39 km) * Lérez (60 km) * (64 km) *
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(126 km) ** Sar (42 km) * Tambre (134 km) **
Samo Samo (–) founded the first recorded political union of Slavic tribes, known as Samo's Empire (''realm'', ''kingdom'', or ''tribal union''), stretching from Silesia to present-day Slovakia, ruling from 623 until his death in 658. According to ...
(42 km) ** Lengüelle (35 km) * Xallas (62 km) * Anllóns (55 km) * (57 km) * (84 km)


Cantabrian watershed

This includes the rivers flowing into the
Cantabrian Sea The Cantabrian Sea; french: Mer Cantabrique, gl, Mar Cantábrico, ast, Mar Cantábricu, eu, Kantauri. is the term used mostly in Spain to describe the coastal sea of the Atlantic Ocean that borders the northern coast of Spain and the southwe ...
(as well as in the case of the
Garonne The Garonne (, also , ; Occitan, Catalan, Basque, and es, Garona, ; la, Garumna or ) is a river of southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux – ...
the wider Bay of Biscay) east of the Punta de Estaca de Bares. They are chiefly short streams streaming down the
Cantabrian Mountains , etymology=Named after the Cantabri , photo=Cordillera Cantábrica vista desde el Castro Valnera.jpg , photo_caption=Cantabrian Mountains parallel to the Cantabrian Sea seen from Castro Valnera in an east-west direction. In the background, ...
and the southern slopes of the
Pyrenees The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to ...
. * Eo ( · 79 km) * Nalón ( · 129 km) ** Narcea ( · 107 km) * Navia ( · 159 km) * Sella ( · 56 km) ** Dobra () * Deva ( · 60 km) **
Cares The Cares is a river in Northern Spain that flows through the autonomous communities of Asturias and León until it joins the Deva River and flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the Bay of Biscay. It forms the Tina Mayor estuary, the natural bo ...
( · 50 km) * ( · 50 km) * Saja ( · 58 km) ** ( · 47 km) * Pas ( · 50 km) ** Pisueña ( · 33 km) * Miera ( · 39 km) * Asón ( · 39 km) ** Gándara () * Nervión/''Nerbioi'' ( · 69 km) ** Cadagua **
Ibaizabal The Ibaizabal (''wide river'' in Basque) is a river that drains southeastern Biscay to the Estuary of Bilbao. It is long from its source at Elorrio to the Nervión, and it passes by the towns of Durango and Amorebieta and joins the Nervión rive ...
* Oria ( · 66 km) ** Leitzaran/''Leizarán'' (; 37 km) *
Urola The Urola is a river and valley in Gipuzkoa, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. The river is only 55 kilometres in length, and runs from headwaters in the Aizkorri Mountains, near the town of Legazpi to its outflow into the Cantabrian Sea a ...
( · 55 km) *
Urumea The Urumea ( or , stemming from Basque "ur" 'water' + "me(he)a" 'thin') is a river in the Basque Country at the north of the Iberian Peninsula. It's one of a series of Basque rivers flowing into the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic basin) and is best kno ...
( · 40 km) *
Bidasoa __NOTOC__ The Bidasoa (, ; french: Bidassoa, ) is a river in the Basque Country of northern Spain and southern France that runs largely south to north. Named as such downstream of the village of Oronoz-Mugairi (municipality of Baztan) in the p ...
( · · 41.6 km of which the last ones form the
France–Spain border The France–Spain border (; ) was formally defined in 1659. It separates the two countries from Hendaye and Irun in the west, running through the Pyrenees to Cerbère and Portbou on the Mediterranean Sea. Features Main border The Franco-Sp ...
) ** Baztán ( · 26.8 km) ** Ezkurra ( · 21.6 km) *
Garonne The Garonne (, also , ; Occitan, Catalan, Basque, and es, Garona, ; la, Garumna or ) is a river of southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux – ...
/''Garona'' ( · · 602 km of which roughly 40 km run through Spain)


See also

* List of rivers of Catalonia


References

;Informational notes ;Citations


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