Sabor River, ''Rio Sabor'' in Portuguese, is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the ...
that rises in
Spain
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, national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' ( Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, ...
and enters
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal:
:* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian ...
in the
Natural Park of Montesinho, 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 o ...
, passing near the city of
Bragança from where it receives the
waterbody
A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet. The term most often refers to oceans, seas, and lakes, but it includes smaller pools of water such as ...
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 wate ...
, going to empty close to the
Torre de Moncorvo
Torre de Moncorvo () is a municipality in the district of Bragança in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,572, in an area of 531.56 km².
The present mayor is Nuno Gonçalves, elected by the PSD.
Torre de Moncorvo is also a well-devel ...
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 D ...
, 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 Ages ...
. The Sabor River
basin
Basin may refer to:
Geography and geology
* Depression (geology)
** Back-arc basin, a submarine feature associated with island arcs and subduction zones
** Debris basin, designed to prevent damage from debris flow
** Drainage basin (hydrology), ...
is a large basin (3170 km2) located in the northeast of Portugal and used mostly for
agroforestry.
[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]
References
Rivers of Portugal
Rivers of Spain
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