Portuguese rivers and the ocean, found on the map

Every one on the map

Every place listed below can be asked in this game. Places you find in a passed round drop out of your remaining pool.

What the map tells you about each one

The paragraph the game shows when you find each one. Reading them first is not cheating.

Tagus

The Tagus, Tejo in Portuguese, runs about 1,000km from the mountains east of Madrid, and its estuary at Lisbon is one of the largest in Europe. It divides Portugal as much as any line on the map: the wetter, more crowded north above it and the plains of the Alentejo below.

Douro

The Douro rises in Spain as the Duero and forms the border for about 110km before crossing into Portugal. Its valley is terraced for the vines that make port, and until the railway and the dams came the wine went downstream to Porto in flat-bottomed rabelo boats through rapids.

Guadiana

The Guadiana marks the Spanish border twice, in the middle of its course and again for its last 50km to the sea at Vila Real de Santo António. Between the two stretches it runs through the Alentejo, where the Alqueva dam holds it back in a lake of about 250 square kilometers.

Minho

The Minho rises in Galicia and forms the border for its last 75km, one of the oldest stable frontiers in Europe. It gave its name to the green northwestern region on the Portuguese side, and to the vinho verde grown there.

Mondego

The Mondego is the longest river that runs its whole course inside Portugal, about 230km from the Serra da Estrela to the sea at Figueira da Foz. Coimbra’s poets and fado singers have been writing about it for as long as the university has stood above it.

Zêzere

The Zêzere rises high on the Serra da Estrela in a valley carved by an Ice Age glacier and flows south into the Tagus at Constância. The Castelo de Bode dam on its lower course holds the reservoir that supplies most of Lisbon’s drinking water.

Sorraia

The Sorraia drains the northern Alentejo into the Tagus estuary, through rice fields and cork oak. It gave its name to the Sorraia horse, a primitive, dun-colored breed found living wild along its banks in the 1920s.

Sado

The Sado is one of the few rivers in Europe that flows north for most of its length, to an estuary at Setúbal. The estuary is a nature reserve of salt pans and rice fields, and has a resident group of bottlenose dolphins.

Atlantic Ocean

Portugal has only one sea and has lived off it: the exclusive economic zone around the mainland and the two archipelagos is among the largest in Europe. The Portuguese still eat more fish per person than almost anyone in Europe, and salted cod from the far north Atlantic is a staple of its cooking.

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