
The Sar 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 ...
in
Galicia, Spain. Rising near
Santiago de Compostela, it flows through the A Maía valley for over before entering the
Ulla River, near
Padron.
Pomponius Mela (d. 45 AD) mentions it (''Sars'') in ''De situ orbis libri III''. Galician local poet
Rosalía de Castro wrote a well-known collection titled ''En las Orillas del Sar'' ("On the Banks of the Sar"), in
Castilian Spanish
In English, Castilian Spanish can mean the variety of Peninsular Spanish spoken in northern and central Spain, the standard form of Spanish, or Spanish from Spain in general. In Spanish, the term (Castilian) can either refer to the Spanish langua ...
.
See also
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List of rivers of Spain
This is an incomplete list of rivers that are at least partially in Spain. 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 Peninsu ...
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Rivers of Galicia The rivers of Galicia form part of a dense hydrographical network in the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia and has been described by Otero Pedrayo as “the land of a thousand rivers”. Most rivers are not deep enough to be navigable, althou ...
External links
Rivers of Spain
Rivers of Galicia (Spain)
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