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Águeda River

176 km from source to mouth · Portugal and Spain.

PortugalSpainPortugal and SpainFlows into Douro River9th longest in Portugal

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SourceMouth
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

176km

Average flow

23m³/s

Basin

2,353km²

Drop

672m

from 803 m to 131 m

Countries

2

The journey

From source to mouth

176 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

803 m131 m
Navasfríasat 803 m0 km
Agueda Dam0.6 km²52 km
Ciudad Rodrigo14,080 people66 km
Puente de la Unión99 km
french Bridge, Puerto Seguro130 km
Turones Rivertributary157 km
Douro Riverat 131 m176 km
050100150176 km
  1. 0 kmNavasfríasat 803 m
  2. 0 kmVillar bridge
  3. 52 kmAgueda Dam0.6 km²
  4. 66 kmCiudad Rodrigo14,080 people
  5. 66 kmPuente Mayor
  6. 99 kmPuente de la Unión
  7. 130 kmfrench Bridge, Puerto Seguro
  8. 157 kmTurones Rivertributary
  9. 175 kmÁgueda River International Railway Bridge
  10. 176 kmDouro Riverat 131 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Portugal and Spain

At the mouth it carries 23 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 110 seconds. It drops from 803 m to 131 m, 3.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,353 km², about the size of RE. 28,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to February; lowest: from June to September. Its dams hold back little of its water (3.2% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • Ciudad RodrigoLargest city on its banks · 14,080 people
  • Salamanca Airport (SLM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 95 km from the cityCar hire in ViseuDiscover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit

Águeda River, month by month

Highest water: from December to February

Lowest water: from June to September. Best months to visit: from May to September.

64
5°100 mmJan
61
7°90 mmFeb
48
9°73 mmMar
35
12°62 mmApr
27
14°60 mmMay
16
19°37 mmJun
6.2
22°10 mmJul
2.4
22°9 mmAug
7.4
19°38 mmSep
24
14°70 mmOct
48
9°95 mmNov
57
6°89 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 2.4 m³/s in the lowest month to 64 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.

Plan the trip

Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car

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The basin

Águeda River: the basin in numbers

2,578 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Lightly regulatedReservoirs can hold 3.2% of a year's flow.
  • 28,000people live in the basin
  • 11/km²people per km²
  • 764maverage altitude of the basin
  • 764mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 12.5°Caverage air temperature
  • 13%protected areas
  • 0.0km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 53% Forest
  • 17% Cropland
  • 14% Pasture

RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.

Along the river

Águeda River: what you find on the way

  • 5DamsCarretera de la Presa del Águeda, Presa del Águeda, Represa del embalse La Junta and 2 more
  • 7Weirs
  • 2Boat ramps
  • 1Ferry piersMuelle de Vega Terrón
  • 2MarinasFluvina de Barca de Alva
  • 1River beachesParque de Merendas - Playa Fluvial

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Águeda River in our other atlases

What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.

  • 1lake on its wayLakeyas
  • 13mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (1)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Agueda Damkm 360.6km²

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Mountains at the source (13)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Jálama9.1 km away · prominence 605 m1,492m
  2. Cabeço da Ponte8.8 km away
  3. Cabeço da Pelada10 km away
  4. Cabeço do Odre10 km away
  5. Cabeço da Moita do Senhor12 km away
  6. Cabeço do Brejo3.0 km away
  7. Alto da Vinha11 km away
  8. Serra do Homem de Pedra8.4 km away

5 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Águeda River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Águeda River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth10 km across

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.

Photos

Águeda River in pictures

Cañones del Águeda en La Encina
Hovallef · CC BY-SA 4.0
Agueda 01 by-dpc
David Perez · CC BY 3.0
Arribes del Águeda
Jesús Alberto Hernández Criado · CC0
Nacimiento río Águeda II
Angel Calzada · CC BY-SA 3.0 es

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

Douro RiverPortugalPortugal897 km680 m³/s

Tributaries (5)

Also: Agadón River, Olleros River, Turones River, Río Burguillos, Frío River

In the same basin

EslaSpainSpain285 km140 m³/sPisuerga RiverSpainSpain283 km110 m³/sTormesSpainSpain284 km42 m³/sTâmega RiverPortugalPortugal184 km69 m³/sCarrión RiverSpainSpain179 km21 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

TormesSpainSpain284 km42 m³/s48 km awayEslaSpainSpain285 km140 m³/s88 km awayTâmega RiverPortugalPortugal184 km69 m³/s115 km awayMinho RiverPortugalPortugal315 km340 m³/s182 km awayVouga RiverPortugalPortugal148 km62 m³/s150 km awaySilisSpainSpain228 km240 m³/s171 km awayPisuerga RiverSpainSpain283 km110 m³/s182 km awayMondego RiverPortugalPortugal234 km110 m³/s190 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q14661) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesLakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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