Amarguillo
| Amarguillo Arroyo de Valdespino | |
|---|---|
.jpg) View of the Amarguillo | |
 | |
| Location | |
| Country | Spain |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Collado de la Mirla, Sierra de la Calderina |
| • location | Urda, Spain |
| • coordinates | 39°19′55″N 3°45′43″W / 39.332°N 3.762°W |
| Mouth | Cigüela |
• location | Alcázar de San Juan, Spain |
• coordinates | 39°18′11″N 3°21′14″W / 39.303°N 3.354°W |
| Length | 55 km (34 mi) |
Basin size | 563 km2 (217 sq mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Cigüela→ Guadiana→ Atlantic Ocean |
The Amarguillo is a river in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula and a tributary of the Cigüela. It belongs to the Guadiana river basin.[1] In modern times, it is dry during most of the year.[2]
Description
[edit]The watercourse originates to the north of the Collado de la Mirla (in the Sierra de la Calderina, a subrange of the Montes de Toledo) within the Spanish municipality of Urda.[3][4] Featuring a catchment area of around 563 km2, the river runs for 55 kilometers mostly in a west-east direction near the fringes of the Montes de Toledo.[2] Historically, the river has been the site of multiple catastrophic floods, including the 1891 one, in which the river reached an estimated flow by Consuegra of 114 m3/s.[5] It passes near the Spanish municipalities of Urda, Consuegra, Madridejos, and Camuñas.[6] Also known as arroyo de Valdespino in its lower course, it discharges into the Cigüela in the province of Ciudad Real.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Martín Aguado, Máximo (1993). "Semblanza geológica del río Amarguillo" (PDF). Toletum: boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes y Ciencias Históricas de Toledo (29): 63–84. ISSN 0210-6310.
- 1 2 Potenciano de las Heras et al. 1996, p. 1135.
- ↑ Jiménez de Gregorio, Fernando (1999). La Mancha toledana (PDF). Toledo: Diputación Provincial de Toledo. p. 21. ISBN 84-87103-92-8.
- ↑ "Villafranca de los Caballeros" (PDF). Provincia (27). Toledo: Diputación Provincial de Toledo: 5. 1960.
- ↑ Potenciano de las Heras, A; Martínez Goytre, J.; Durán Valsero, J.J.; Garzón Heydt, G. (1996). "Inundaciones en la cuenca del río Amarguillo (Toledo)" [Floods in the Amarguillo river basin (Toledo)] (PDF). Geogaceta: 1135, 1137.
- ↑ Jiménez de Gregorio, Fernando (1987). "Panorámica geográfico-histórica de la villa manchega de Camuñas" (PDF). Beresit: Revista Interdiciplinar científico-humana (1): 146. ISSN 0213-9944.
- ↑ Jiménez de Gregorio 1999, p. 21.