This is my
first card from Portugal :
The Tagus is
the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula . It
is 1,038 km long, 716 km
in Spain , 47 km along the
border between Portugal and Spain and 275 km in Portugal ,
where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Lisbon . It drains an area of 80,100 square
kilometers (the second largest in the Iberian peninsula after the Douro ). The Tagus is
highly utilized for most of its course. Several dams and diversions supply
drinking water to most of central Spain ,
including Madrid , and Portugal , while
dozens of hydroelectric stations create power. Between dams it follows a very
constricted course, but after Almourol it enters a vast alluvial valley prone
to flooding. At its mouth is a large estuary on which the port city of Lisbon is situated.
The source
of the Tagus is the Fuente de García, in the Montes
Universales, Sistema Ibérico, Sierra de Albarracín Comarca. All its major
tributaries enter the Tagus from the right
(north) bank. The main cities it passes through are Aranjuez, Toledo ,
Talavera de la Reina
and Alcántara in Spain , and Abrantes,
Santarém, Almada and Lisbon in Portugal .
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