Atlantic Ocean,Figueira da Foz, Coimbra District, Centro, Portugal
• elevation
0 m (0 ft)
Length
234 km (145 mi)
Basin size
6,670 km2 (2,580 sq mi)
Discharge
• location
Figueira da Foz
• average
108 m3/s (3,800 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left
Alva, Ceira, Arunca, and Pranto
• right
Dão
Mondego River in Coimbra.
The Rio Mondego (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈʁi.umõˈdeɣu]) or Mondego River is the longest river entirely within Portuguese territory.[1] It has its source in Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in mainland Portugal (i.e. excluding the Portuguese islands). It runs 234 kilometres (145 mi) from the Gouveia municipality, at 1,425 metres (4,675 ft) above sea level in Serra da Estrela, to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean next to the city of Figueira da Foz.
^"Mondego" by Manuel Pinheiro, Final Project of a masters's degree in Wildlife Documentary Production from the University of Salford. Film marked with a distinction. Filmed in Portugal during May/June 2011. A voyage by the Mondego river's wildlife from the mountains to the sea.
The Rio Mondego (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁi.u mõˈdeɣu]) or MondegoRiver is the longest river entirely within Portuguese territory. It has its source...
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Alva River (Portuguese: Rio Alva, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈalvɐ]) is a river in Portugal. It flows into the MondegoRiver. The river Alva is a mountain...
been kept alive through the ages." The city, located on a hill by the MondegoRiver, was called Aeminium in Roman times. The Romans founded the civitas...
Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast, it is located at the mouth of the MondegoRiver, 40 km (25 mi) west of Coimbra and sheltered by hills (Serra da Boa...
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The Cape Mondego Lighthouse (Portuguese: Farol do Cabo Mondego) is situated 3 nautical miles NNW of the MondegoRiver estuary on the Portuguese Atlantic...
country. There are three rivers that have their headwaters in the Serra da Estrela: the Mondego, which is the longest river entirely within Portuguese...
girder bridge completed and opened on 30 October 1954, crossing the MondegoRiver leading to the town square of Coimbra. It was inaugurated on the same...
693, in an area of 247.22 km2. Main town: Celorico da Beira, near the MondegoRiver. Principal monument: Celorico da Beira Castle. Train station: Celorico...
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Alfonso's troops succeeded in locating the southwestern frontier on the Mondegoriver. Count Vimara Perez in 868 conquered Porto and resettled the district...
The Metro Mondego, part of the mass transit public transport system of Coimbra, Portugal, was to have been a light-rail network that runs above ground...
former Portuguese NUTS3 subregion that comprised the lower part of the MondegoRiver. It was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. It was a subregion...
León-Castile, losing significant parts of its territory south of the MondegoRiver (south of Coimbra). The Abbadids of Seville also conquered parts of...
still prevalent in much of what is now Portugal, namely south of the Mondegoriver, and later, for many more decades, across the Alentejo and Algarve regions...
overnight stays. The urban areas of Porto and Northern Portugal, north of Douro River surpassed Madeira, in 2010, and the Algarve, in 2015, and became the second...
progressed nearly 200 km south along the coast, passing from the Douro River to the Mondego valley but inland the border ran northeast along the Estrela Mountainrange...
Trastemires – a Portuguese frontiersman – captures Montemor castle on the Mondegoriver. Over the next 28 years Ferdinand I of León takes Coimbra and obliges...
rivers. There is also a candy called Papas de moado, which is prepared from pig's blood, flour, sugar, nuts and spices, mainly in the MondegoRiver region...
difficult for the then Count of Portugal, with a realm little beyond the MondegoRiver, to go all the way south to battle five Muslim kings. One plausible...
Essex, England – (ongoing, locally successful) Western swamphen in the MondegoRiver basin, Portugal (successful) White stork to France, Sweden, the Netherlands...
in a magnificent Gothic sarcophagus. After frequent flooding by the MondegoRiver in the 17th century, the Poor Clares moved her mortal remains to the...
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