Guadalix

Guadalix
Map
Location
CountrySpain
Physical characteristics
SourcePuerto de la Morcuera [es]
 • locationMiraflores de la Sierra
 • coordinates41°0′55″N 3°51′4″W / 41.01528°N 3.85111°W / 41.01528; -3.85111
MouthJarama
 • location
Algete
 • coordinates
40°36′58″N 3°34′24″W / 40.61611°N 3.57333°W / 40.61611; -3.57333
Length42 km (26 mi)
Basin features
ProgressionJarama→ Tagus→ Atlantic Ocean
River systemTagus

The Guadalix is a river of Spain located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, a right-bank tributary of the Jarama.

It springs out of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the valley flanked by the La Najarra Peak [es], el Puerto de la Morcuera [es], the Alto de la Genciana and the Cordal de la Vaqueriza.[1] Featuring a total length of 42 km,[2] it runs southeastwards through the Community of Madrid until discharging in the Jarama near the Santo Domingo housing development (Algete),[3] next to the Jarama Circuit.

Its waters are impounded by the El Vellón Reservoir [es].[1]

Regarding the etymology of the hidronym Guadalix; the prefix comes from the Arabic wadi ("river") while the suffix -alix has been identified either as an alleged Arab anthroponym or as possibly pre-Arab.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Mejías Moreno, Miguel; Pozo Tejado, Jesús del; Albacete Carreño, Lourdes; Villarroya Gil, Fermín (2016). "El agua en la Sierra de Guadarrama" (PDF). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección geológica. (110): 77. ISSN 0583-7510.
  2. ^ Nacional, Instituto Geográfico. "Datos geográficos y toponimia. Vertiente atlántica". Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (in European Spanish). Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  3. ^ "Anejo nº 16. Estudio de impacto ambiental" (PDF). Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana. p. 66.
  4. ^ Elsayed Mahmoud, Rania (2018). La presencia del arabismo en la antroponimia hispánica contemporánea (PDF). Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. p. 213.