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Guadalope

160 km from source to mouth · Spain.

SpainSpainFlows into Ebro

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

In numbers

Length

160km

Average flow

4.8m³/s

Basin

3,890km²

Drop

1,227m

from 1,333 m to 106 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

160 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

1,333 m106 m
Sourceat 1,333 m0 km
Santolea Reservoir2.4 km²58 km
Calanda reservoir0.8 km²81 km
Guadalopillo Rivertributary87 km
Alcañiz16,392 people103 km
Ebroat 106 m160 km
050100160 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 1,333 m
  2. 58 kmSantolea Reservoir2.4 km²
  3. 70 kmMas de las Matas1,442 people
  4. 75 kmBergantestributary
  5. 81 kmCalanda reservoir0.8 km²
  6. 87 kmGuadalopillo Rivertributary
  7. 103 kmAlcañiz16,392 people
  8. 156 kmCaspe8,054 people
  9. 160 kmEbroat 106 m

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

River in Aragon, Spain

At the mouth it carries 4.8 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 518 seconds. It drops from 1,333 m to 106 m, 7.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,890 km², about the size of CV. 37,000 people live in it. Highest water: May and from October to November; lowest: August. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 138% of a year's flow.

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Where to start

Guadalope, month by month

Highest water: May and from October to November

Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from June to October.

5.6
6°23 mmJan
4.6
7°25 mmFeb
4.9
10°32 mmMar
5.7
13°37 mmApr
8.9
16°58 mmMay
6.9
20°43 mmJun
2.5
23°18 mmJul
1.3
23°27 mmAug
5.8
20°52 mmSep
9.7
14°52 mmOct
9.7
9°38 mmNov
8.3
8°33 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 1.3 m³/s in the lowest month to 9.7 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

Guadalope: the basin in numbers

3,833 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

DammedReservoirs can hold 138% of a year's flow: much of the river is a chain of lakes.
  • 37,000people live in the basin
  • 10/km²people per km²
  • 947maverage altitude of the basin
  • 538mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 11.2°Caverage air temperature
  • 1%protected areas
  • 0.2%covered by lakes
  • 0.2km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 21% Forest
  • 40% Cropland
  • 8% 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

Guadalope: what you find on the way

  • 7DamsPresa de Puente de Santolea, Presa de Santolea and 5 more
  • 6Weirs
  • 3WaterfallsMedidor Guadalope
  • 2Boat rampsEmbarcadereo Mediano Cero
  • 1MarinasPuerto deportivo de Caspe

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Guadalope 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.

  • 2lakes on its wayLakeyas
  • 2mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Lakes and reservoirs (2)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Santolea Reservoirkm 542.4km²
  2. Calanda reservoirkm 760.8km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

Mountains at the source (2)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Peñarroya9.1 km away2,028m
  2. Bolage9.4 km away

Open Peakyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Guadalope: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Guadalope: 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

Guadalope in pictures

Río Guadalope en Alcañiz
manelzaera · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cauce del río Guadalope a su paso por Villarroya de los Pinares (Teruel, España)
Juan Emilio Prades Bel · CC BY-SA 4.0
El cauce del río Guadalope a su paso por Villarroya de los Pinares (Teruel, España)
Juan Emilio Prades Bel · CC BY-SA 4.0
El Guadalope en Miravete de la Sierra
Lumley_ · CC BY 2.0

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q23141) · 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.

The family

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