1 Spains surrounding north east south west 2 Autonomous communities and its capitals 3 Meseta Central 4 Many mountain ranges 5 Rivers Source Mouth and Main tributaries 1 Spains surrounding ID: 810310
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Slide1
The Geography of Spain
Content:
1. Spain’s surrounding (north, east, south, west)
2. Autonomous communities and its capitals
3.
Meseta
Central
4. Many mountain ranges
5. Rivers (Source, Mouth and Main tributaries)
Slide21. Spain’s surrounding
The countries:
In the north: France and Andorra
In the South: Morocco and Gibraltar
In the West: Portugal
The seas
:
In the north: Mar Cant
á
brico
In the east and south: Mediterranean Sea
In the south and west: Atlantic Ocean
Slide32. The autonomous
communities and their capitals
Slide43. The
different
seas
that surround Spain
Slide54. The
Meseta
Central
Meseta
Central
, great plateau of the Iberian
Penisnsula
. With
Madrid
at its centre, it extends over 210,000 square km and has an average elevation of 660 metres.
It is the oldest and most complex geologic formation of the peninsula.
Its western slope is gently inclined toward the
Atlantic Ocean
and forms the basins of the
Duero
,
Tajo
,
and
Guadiana
rivers.
To the north the
plateau
rises abruptly into the
Cantabrian Mountains
, and to the east it becomes a series of ranges
Slide6What other mountain ranges are there?
On the
meseta
:
Sistema
central: splits the
meseta
into north and south
Montes de Toledo: southern part of
mesta
Around the
mesta
:
Cordillera
Cantabrica
: in the north contains
Picos
de
Europa
Montes de Leon: under the
Codillera
Cantabrica
Sistema
Iberico
: eastern edge of
meseta
Sierra
Morena
: south of the
meseta
Slide7The mountains
Slide8What important rivers are there?
On the
meseta
:
Duero
Tajo
Guadiana
Around the
meseta
:
Guadalquivir
Miño
Slide9The Rivers
Slide10Spanish Watersheds
Slide11CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WATERSHEDS OF SPAIN
Watersheds
They are areas of land which descend from high mountain ranges. A watershed is an area of land that drains or “sheds” water into a specific
waterbody
. Every body of water has a
watershed
. Rivers
on the same watershed flow into the same sea. Spain has three main watersheds:
The
Cantabrian watershed
has short, fast-flowing and rivers. Their flow is abundant and regular: the
Nervion
, the
Saja
, the
Navia
and the
Nalon
.
The
Mediterranean watershed
occupies about one third of Spain. The rivers are short and carry little water with the exception of the Ebro. Examples are the Jucar and the Segura. They flow is irregular.
The
Atlantic watershed
occupies over half of Spain. The flow of the rivers is abundant and regular: the
Miño
, the Duero, the Tajo, the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir. The Tajo is the longest river in Spain.