GUADIANA (anc. Anas, Moorish Wadi Ana)

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GUADIANA (anc. Anas, Moorish Wadi Ana) , a river of Spain and Portugal. The Guadiana was

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

believed to rise in the lowland known as the Campo de Montiel, where a

chain

CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

of small lakes, the Lagunas de Ruidera (partly in Ciudad Real, partly in Albacete), are linked together by the Guadiana Alto or Upper Guadiana. This stream flows north-westward from the last lake and vanishes underground within 3 M. of the river Zancara or Giguela. About 22 m. S.W. of the point of disappearance, the Guadiana Alto was believed to re-emerge in the form of several large springs, which form numerous lakes near the Zancara and are known as the " eyes of the Guadiana " (los ojos de Guadiana). The stream which connects them with the Zancara is called the Guadiana Bajo or

Lower

LOWER

Guadiana. It is now known that the Guadiana Alto has no such course, but flows underground to the Zancara itself, which is the true " Upper Guadiana." The Zancara rises near the source of the Jilcar, in the

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

of the tableland of La

Mancha

MANCHA, LA (Arabic, Al Mancha, " the dry
land
- LAND
" or "wilderness ")

; thence it flows westward, assuming the name of Guadiana near Ciudad Real, and reaching the Portuguese frontier 6 m. S.W. of Badajoz. In piercing the Sierra Morena it forms a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of foaming rapids, and only begins to be navigable at Mertola, 42 M. from its mouth. From the- neighbourhood of Badajoz it forms the boundary between Spain and Portugal as far as a point near Monsaraz, where it receives the small river Priega Munoz on the left, and passes into Portuguese territory, with a southerly direction. At Pomarao it again becomes a frontier stream and forms a broad estuary 25 M.

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

. It enters the Gulf of Cadiz between the Portuguese town of Villa Real de Santo Antonio and the Spanish Ayamonte, after a

total

TOTAL

course of 510 M. its mouth is divided by sandbanks into many channels. The Guadiana drains an area of 31,940 sq. m. Its

principal

PRINCIPAL

tributaries are the Zujar, Jabalon, Matachel and Ardila from the left; the Bullaque, Ruecas, Botoa, Degebe and Cobres from the right.
The GUADIANA MENOR (or Guadianamenor, i.e. "Lesser Guadiana ") rises in the Sierra Nevada, receives two large tributaries, the Fardes from the right and Barbata from the left, and enters the Guadalquivir near Ubeda, after a course of 95 M.

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