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SPAIN

Relief

Rivers

climate and landscapes

Is formed of

Mountain range

River basin

Inner plateau

The pyrenees

The catalan coastal range

The beatic system

Guadalquivir basin

Ebro basin

Peninsula

islnds

Canary islands

Blearic islands

Characteristics

- Archipielago in Atlantic ocean

- volcanic islands

- 7 islands: Tenerife, La palma, La Gomera, El Hierro, Gran Canaria, Fuerteaventura, Lanzarote

-El Teide (3,718m) highest mountain in spain

- An archipielago in the Mediterranean sea

- 5islands: Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, Formentera and Cabrera

- Mostly with a plain relief

Cantabrian Sea

Mediterranean sea

Atlantic Sea

exp: Nervion, Nalon, Navia

ch: rivers flow short distances down their steeps seapes. It rains all year so the rivers have on abundant regular flow

exp: Miño, Duero, Tjo, Guadiana, Guadalquivir

ch: long rivers, sources in high regions fat from the coast. Heavy precipitations in the mountains, abundant flow and they end in large estuaries

exp: Turia, Jucar, Segura and Ebro

ch: most rivers are short, and have a scorce irregular flow. The Ebro river has the largest flow of all spanish rivers. Mny of its tributaries beging in the pyrinees, where there is heavy rainfall.

Subtropical landscapes

Mediterranean landscapes

Atlantic landscapes

ch: found in north and west, usually mild temperatures, heavy rainfall, regular all the year. Moorland is found in high areas. Meadowns in same areas.

ch: found in the east, south and centre of spain , as weel in balearic islands, precipitation source and irregular. In coastals areas, tewmperatures aren mild, summers very hot, winters very coldd, evergreen trees.

found un canary islands, close to the tropic of cancer, temperatures are mild all year round, and precipitations in source. Palms, pine trees, drago trees and laurisilva vegetation.