See also:

• GUADIANA (anc. Anas, Moorish Wadi Ana)

GUADIANA (anc. Anas, Moorish See also:

• WADI

Wadi See also:

• ANA

Ana)  , a See also:

• RIVER

river of See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain and See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal . The See also:

• GUADIANA (anc. Anas, Moorish Wadi Ana)

Guadiana was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long believed to rise in the See also:

• LOWLAND

lowland known as the Campo de Montiel, where a See also:

• CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

chain of small lakes, the Lagunas de Ruidera (partly in See also:

• CIUDAD

Ciudad Real, partly in See also:

• ALBACETE

Albacete), are linked together by the Guadiana See also:

• ALTO (Ital. for " high ")

Alto or Upper Guadiana . This stream flows See also:

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

north-westward from the last See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake and vanishes underground within 3 M. of the river Zancara or Giguela . About 22 m . S.W. of the point of disappearance, the Guadiana Alto was believed to re-emerge in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of several large springs, which form numerous lakes near the Zancara and are known as the " eyes of the Guadiana " (los ojos de Guadiana) . The stream which connects them with the Zancara is called the Guadiana Bajo or See also:

• LOWER

Lower Guadiana . It is now known that the Guadiana Alto has no such course, but flows underground to the Zancara itself, which is the true " Upper Guadiana." The Zancara rises near the source of the Jilcar, in the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of the tableland of La See also:

• MANCHA, LA (Arabic, Al Mancha, " the dry land " or "wilderness ")

Mancha; thence it flows westward, assuming the name of Guadiana near Ciudad Real, and reaching the Portuguese frontier 6 m . S.W. of See also:

• BADAJOZ
• BADAJOZ (formerly sometimes written Badajos)

Badajoz . In piercing the Sierra Morena it forms a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of foaming rapids, and only begins to be navigable at Mertola, 42 M. from its mouth . From the- neighbourhood of Badajoz it forms the boundary between Spain and Portugal as far as a point near Monsaraz, where it receives the small river Priega Munoz on the See also:

• LEFT

left, and passes into Portuguese territory, with a southerly direction . At Pomarao it again becomes a frontier stream and forms a broad See also:

• ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary 25 M. long . It enters the Gulf of See also:

• CADIZ
• CADIZ (Cadiz)
• CADIZ (in Lat. Gades, and formerly called Cales by the English)

Cadiz between the Portuguese See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• VILLA

Villa Real de Santo See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio and the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish Ayamonte, after a See also:

• TOTAL

total course of 510 M. its mouth is divided by sandbanks into many channels .

The Guadiana drains an See also:

• AREA

area of 31,940 sq. m . Its See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal tributaries are the Zujar, Jabalon, Matachel and Ardila from the left; the Bullaque, Ruecas, Botoa, Degebe and Cobres from the right . The GUADIANA MENOR (or Guadianamenor, i.e . "Lesser Guadiana ") rises in the Sierra See also:

• NEVADA
• NEVADA (a Spanish word meaning " snow-clad " or " snowy land," originally applied to a snow-capped mountain range on the Pacific slope)

Nevada, receives two large tributaries, the Fardes from the right and Barbata from the left, and enters the See also:

• GUADALQUIVIR (ancient Baetis, Moorish Wadi al Kebir, "the Great River ")

Guadalquivir near Ubeda, after a course of 95 M .