River basins and Spain's drainage basins
Rivers do not travel alone. Small rivers join big rivers, and big rivers flow to the sea. Let's learn the words to describe this.
A river that empties into a bigger river. Example: the Jarama is a tributary of the Tajo.
The point where two rivers meet.
An area of land drained by a river and its tributaries: all the precipitation that falls there goes into that river.
A group of river basins that empty into the same sea or ocean.
The three drainage basins of the Iberian Peninsula
Short rivers with a lot of water, because the mountains are close to the sea and it rains a lot.
Long rivers that cross the Meseta. The Tajo is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.
Most are short, except the Ebro: the longest river that is all in Spain. It ends in a delta.
Which river is closest to where you live? Which drainage basin does it belong to? Where is its source, and where is its mouth?