The physical geography of a country includes all the natural elements of landscape, like seas, mountains, rivers and plains...
Spain is a península. It is surrounded by water except from one part.
The seas around Spain are:
- The Cantabric Sea in the north
- The Atlantic Ocean in the west
- The Mediterranean Sea in the east and south
We have also started learning about the most important rivers of our country.
You can practice in this interactive maps
Rivers of Spain (What´s the name?)
Rivers of Spain (Where is..?)
This is the map of the rivers we have studied
Last week we also learnt the most important mountains
The mountains that you have to study are:
- Macizo Galaico (in Galicia)
- Montes de León ( in León)
- Cordillera Cantábrica (under the Cantabric Sea)
- Montes Vascos (in País Vasco)
- Pirineos (they are the natural border between Spain and France)
- Cordillera Litoral or Cordillera Costero-Catalana (along the coast of Cataluña)
- Sistema Ibérico ( in Casti
lla y León, Aragón and C. Valenciana)
- Sistema Central (in the centre of the peninsula)
- Montes de Toledo (in Toledo)
- Sierra Morena ( between Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalucía)
- Sistemas Béticos (in the east of Andalucía)
- Teide (in Tenerife- Islas Canarias) It´s a volcano and it´s the highest mountain in Spain with a height of 3,718 m
You can practice the mountains in these maps:
Mountains- What´s the name?
Mountains- Where is?
We also learnt that the place where a river begins it´s called the source. It is usually near the mountains. The mouth is the place where a river flows into a sea or ocean.
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RIVER
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SOURCE
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MOUTH
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SEA/OCEAN
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MIÑO
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CORDILLERA CANTABRICA
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Between Galicia and Portugal
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Atlantic Ocean
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DUERO
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SISTEMA IBÉRICO
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Oporto (Portugal)
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TAJO
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SISTEMA IBÉRICO
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Lisbon (Portugal)
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GUADIANA
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SISTEMAS BÉTICOS
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Between Portugal and Huelva
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GUADALQUIVIR
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SISTEMAS BÉTICOS
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Cádiz
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EBRO
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CORDILLERA CANTABRICA
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Tarragona (Cataluña)
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Mediterranean Sea
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JÚCAR
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SISTEMA IBÉRICO
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C. Valenciana
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SEGURA
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SISTEMAS BÉTICOS
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Murcia
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