River
Alberche
100 km from source to mouth · Spain.
SpainFlows into Tagus River
In numbers
Length
100km
Average flow
15m³/s
Basin
4,108km²
Drop
227m
from 596 m to 369 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
100 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSierra de Gredosat 596 m
- 0 kmNavaluenga2,135 people
- 0 kmPuente de Navaluenga
- 2 kmEl Burguillo Reservoir5.9 km²
- 6 kmEl Tiemblo4,582 people
- 6 kmPuente de la N-403 sobre el Alberche, El Tiemblo
- 9 kmPuente de Valsordo
- 9 kmGaznata Rivertributary
- 14 kmGarganta de la Yedratributary
- 19 kmSan Martín de Valdeiglesias9,324 people
- 24 kmPelayos de la Presa2,197 people
- 24 kmCofio Rivertributary
- 25 kmSan Juan Reservoir3.9 km²
- 26 kmPuente de San Juan, San Martín de Valdeiglesias
- 35 kmAldea del Fresno1,989 people
- 36 kmPerales Rivertributary
- 59 kmEscalona2,700 people
- 90 kmCazalegas1,458 people
- 91 kmCazalegas Reservoir2.6 km²
- 99 kmTalavera de la Reina83,803 people
- 100 kmTagus Riverat 369 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Spain
At the mouth it carries 15 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 170 seconds. It drops from 596 m to 369 m, 2.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 4,108 km², about the size of CV. 162,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: from July to September. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 65% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- Talavera de la ReinaLargest city on its banks · 83,803 people
- Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 122 km from the cityCar hire at MAD airport (Madrid)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water3 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to OctoberThe best months to visit
Alberche, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: from July to September. Best months to visit: from June to October.
From about 2.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 49 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Alberche: the basin in numbers
4,142 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 162,000people live in the basin
- 39/km²people per km²
- 866maverage altitude of the basin
- 425mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 12.5°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 0.4km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 35% Forest
- 27% Cropland
- 18% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Alberche: what you find on the way
- 3Weirs
- 2Canoe put-ins
- 3MarinasClub Náutico San Ramón, Embarcadero El Ancla
- 4River beachesVirgen de la Nueva, Cala Tiburón, Playa nudista and 1 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Alberche in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- El Burguillo Reservoirkm 25.9km²
- San Juan Reservoirkm 273.9km²
- Cazalegas Reservoirkm 992.6km²
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Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cabeza Nevada13 km away2,426m
- El Belesar15 km away2,420m
- Cuento Alto14 km away2,271m
- Risco de la Umbrela11 km away
- Risco de Pajaritos12 km away
- Cuerda del Cervunal11 km away
- Cuerda del Barquillo10 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Alberche in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Tagus River
Portugal1,007 km500 m³/sTributaries (10)
Also: Cofio River, Perales River, Gaznata River, Piquillo river, Garganta de la Yedra, Arroyo de Tordillos, Arroyo de Tórtolas, Arroyo de Montrueque, Arroyo de Berciana, Garganta de Iruelas
Nearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q16513) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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