See also:

• DOURO (Span. Duero, Port. Douro, anc. Durius)

DOURO (Span. Duero, See also:

• PORT

Port. Douro, anc. Durius)  , a See also:

• RIVER

river of the Iberian See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

Peninsula . The See also:

• DOURO (Span. Duero, Port. Douro, anc. Durius)

Douro rises See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of the Sierra de la Demanda, in the See also:

• PICO

Pico de Urbion, an isolated See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass 7389 ft. high . It describes a wide See also:

• CURVE (Lat. curvus, bent)

curve eastwards past See also:

• SORIA

Soria, then flows westward across the Castilian table-See also:

• LAND

land, passing south of See also:

• VALLADOLID

Valladolid, with See also:

• TORO

Toro and See also:

• ZAMORA

Zamora on its right See also:

• BANK

bank; then from a point 3 M . E. of Paradella to See also:

• BARCA (mod. Merj)

Barca d'See also:

• ALVA
• ALVA, or ALBA, FERNANDO ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO, DUKE OF, (1508-1583)

Alva it flows south-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west and forms the frontier between See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain and See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal for 65 m . It crosses Portugal in a See also:

• WESTERLY

westerly direction through a narrow and tortuous See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed, and enters the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic 3 M. below See also:

• OPORTO (i.e. o Porto, " the port ")

Oporto at Sao Joao da Foz . The length of the Douro, which is greater than that of any other Iberian river except the See also:

• TAGUS (Span. Tajo, Portug. Tejo)

Tagus and See also:

• GUADIANA (anc. Anas, Moorish Wadi Ana)

Guadiana, is probably about 485. m.; but competent authorities differ widely in their estimates, the extremes given being 420 and 507 M . In Spain the Douro receives from the right the See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers Pisuerga, Valderaduey and Esla, and from the See also:

• LEFT

left several small streams which drain the Sierra Guadarrama, besides the more important rivers Adaja, Tormes and Yeltes; in Portugal it receives the Agueda, Coa and'Paiva from the left, and the Sabor, Tim. and Tamega from the right . The See also:

• AREA

area drained by the Douro and its tributaries is upwards of 37,500 sq. m., and includes the greater See also:

• PART

part of the vast See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau of Old See also:

• CASTILE, or CASTILLE (Castilla)

Castile, between the See also:

• WATER

water-sheds of the Cantabrian Mountains, on the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north, and the Guadarrama,eGredos, Gata and Estrella ranges; on the south . The See also:

• LOWER

lower stream is beset with numerous rapids, called pontos, and is subject to See also:

• SWIFT
• SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667—1745)

swift and violent inundations . On this See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation is attended with difficulties and risks between its mouth and Barca d'Alva; but a railway, See also:

• RUNNING

running for the most part along the right bank, skirts the river during the greater part of its course through Portugal . The mouth of the river is partly blocked by a sandy See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar; only See also:

• SHIPS

ships of See also:

• LIGHT

light See also:

• DRAUGHT (from the common Teutonic word " to draw "; cf. Ger. 7'racht, load; the pronunciation led to the variant form " draft," now confined to certain specific meanings)

draught can enter, while those of greater See also:

• BURDEN, or BURTHEN

burden are accommodated at the See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour of See also:

• LEIXOES

Leixoes, an artificial See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin constructed about 3 M . N .

On its way through Portugal the Douro traverses the Paiz do Vinho, one of the richest See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine-producing territories in the See also:

• WORLD

world; large quantities of wine are conveyed to Oporto, in sailing boats . The Douro yields an abundance of See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish, especially See also:

• TROUT (Salmo trutta)

trout, See also:

• SHAD

shad and lampreys .