The Continental Waters

The rivers and their waersheds.
The river of the Peninsula are gruped into three watersheds, depending on the sea, or ocean they flow into.


The Cantabrian watershed:Is in the north, they flw across steeps terrain,descending rapidly down the montains near the Cantabrian Sea.

The Mediterranean watershed: Is in the east and south, except the Ebro, are short.In general, they do not carry munch wach water and they are very inrregular.In the mountains near the Mediterranean Sea.

The Atlantic watershed:Is in the west, are long and course over wide plains before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean.The most important include the Miño, the Duero,the Tagus, the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir.

We find short streams and torrents, in the Balearic and Canary Islands, which only carry water heavy rainfall.

Lakes,wetlands and aquifers.

Lakes:are small and not very deep the most important is lake Sanabria.

Wetlands:are areas of the land covered by shallow waer the most notable are in guadavalquir,the ebro delta and the lagoon in valencia.

Aquifers:predominate in the northen and southern sub–plateus and in the balearic islands and Canary islands.