Guadalix
Guadalix | |
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Location | |
Country | Spain |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Miraflores de la Sierra |
• coordinates | 41°0′55″N 3°51′4″W / 41.01528°N 3.85111°W |
Mouth | Jarama |
• location | Algete |
• coordinates | 40°36′58″N 3°34′24″W / 40.61611°N 3.57333°W |
Length | 42 km (26 mi) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Jarama→ Tagus→ Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Tagus |
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 Vaqueriza.[1] Featuring a total length of 42 km,[2] it runs southeastwards through the Community of Madrid until discharging in the Jarama near the Santo Domingo housing development (Algete),[3] next to the Jarama Circuit.
Its waters are impounded by the [1]
.Regarding the etymology of the hidronym Guadalix; the prefix comes from the Arabic wadi ("river") while the suffix -alix has been identified either as an alleged Arab anthroponym or as possibly pre-Arab.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b Mejías Moreno, Miguel; Pozo Tejado, Jesús del; Albacete Carreño, Lourdes; Villarroya Gil, Fermín (2016). "El agua en la Sierra de Guadarrama" (PDF). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección geológica. (110): 77. ISSN 0583-7510.
- ^ Nacional, Instituto Geográfico. "Datos geográficos y toponimia. Vertiente atlántica". Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (in European Spanish). Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Anejo nº 16. Estudio de impacto ambiental" (PDF). Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana. p. 66.
- ^ Elsayed Mahmoud, Rania (2018). La presencia del arabismo en la antroponimia hispánica contemporánea (PDF). Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. p. 213.
Categories:
- Tributaries of the Jarama
- Rivers of the Community of Madrid