Guadalix
Location
CountrySpain
Physical characteristics
SourcePuerto de la Morcuera
  locationMiraflores de la Sierra
  coordinates41°0′55″N 3°51′4″W / 41.01528°N 3.85111°W / 41.01528; -3.85111
MouthJarama
  location
Algete
  coordinates
40°36′58″N 3°34′24″W / 40.61611°N 3.57333°W / 40.61611; -3.57333
Length42 km (26 mi)
Basin features
ProgressionJaramaTagusAtlantic Ocean
River systemTagus

The Guadalix is a river of Spain located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, a right-bank tributary of the Jarama.

It springs out of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the valley flanked by the La Najarra Peak, el Puerto de la Morcuera, the Alto de la Genciana and the Cordal de la Vaqueriza.[1] Featuring a total length of 42 km,[2] it runs southeastwards through the Community of Madrid until discharging in the Jarama near the Santo Domingo housing development (Algete),[3] next to the Jarama Circuit.

Its waters are impounded by the El Vellón Reservoir.[1]

Regarding the etymology of the hidronym Guadalix; the prefix comes from the Arabic wadi ("river") while the suffix -alix has been identified either as an alleged Arab anthroponym or as possibly pre-Arab.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Mejías Moreno, Miguel; Pozo Tejado, Jesús del; Albacete Carreño, Lourdes; Villarroya Gil, Fermín (2016). "El agua en la Sierra de Guadarrama" (PDF). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección geológica. (110): 77. ISSN 0583-7510.
  2. Nacional, Instituto Geográfico. "Datos geográficos y toponimia. Vertiente atlántica". Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (in European Spanish). Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  3. "Anejo nº 16. Estudio de impacto ambiental" (PDF). Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana. p. 66.
  4. Elsayed Mahmoud, Rania (2018). La presencia del arabismo en la antroponimia hispánica contemporánea (PDF). Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. p. 213.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.