Tormes
The Tormes is a Spanish river that starts in Prado Tormejón, in the mountain range of Gredos, Navarredonda de Gredos, province of Ávila. It crosses the provinces of Avila and Salamanca, ending at the Duero River, at a place known locally as Ambasaguas, after 284 kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river tributary to Douro, in the provinces of Ávila, Salamanca and Zamora, Castile and León, Spain
- Also known as: “river Tormes” and “Tormes River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Oleiros and Bemposta Dam.
Castle of Oleiros
Archaeological site
Photo: Selete-Vilara, CC0.
Oleiros Castle is a medieval castle located closed to Urrós, civil parish of Mogadouro, Valverde, Vale de Porco e Vilar de Rei, municipality of Mogadouro, district of Bragança, in Portugal, at an elevation of 482 meters above sea level.
Bemposta Dam
Dam
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bemposta Dam is a concrete arch dam on the Douro, where the river forms the national border line between Spain and Portugal. It is located in the municipality Mogadouro, in Bragança District, Portugal.
Pelourinho de Bemposta
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pelourinho de Bemposta is situated 3 km northwest of Tormes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villarino de los Aires and Urrós.
Villarino de los Aires
Village
Photo: El Pantera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Villarino de los Aires is a large municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located in the very north of the province and as of 2016 has a population of 869 people. Villarino de los Aires is situated 2½ km south of Tormes.
Urrós
Village
Urrós is a civil parish of the municipality of Mogadouro, with 32,47 km² of area and 250 inhabitants. Urrós is situated 6 km north of Tormes.
Pereña de la Ribera
Village
Photo: Byj2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pereña de la Ribera is a Spanish municipality in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It has a population of 377 as of 2016 on a total area of 49 km2. Pereña de la Ribera is situated 7 km southwest of Tormes.
Tormes
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Tormes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تورميس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Tormes”
- Asturian: “Tormes”
- Basque: “Tormes”
- Belarusian: “Тормес”
- Breton: “Tormes”
- Bulgarian: “Тормес”
- Catalan: “riu Tormes”
- Catalan: “Tormes”
- Cebuano: “Río Tormes”
- Cebuano: “Tormes”
- Chinese: “托爾梅斯河”
- Czech: “Tormes”
- Dutch: “Tormes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تورميس”
- Esperanto: “Tormes”
- Finnish: “Tormes”
- French: “rivière Tormes”
- French: “Tormes”
- Galician: “Río Tormes”
- Galician: “Tormes”
- German: “Tormes”
- Hungarian: “Tormes”
- Irish: “Tormes”
- Italian: “Tormes”
- Japanese: “トルメス川”
- Kazakh: “Тормес”
- Lithuanian: “Tormesas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tormes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tormes”
- Norwegian: “Tormes”
- Polish: “Tormes”
- Portuguese: “rio Tormes”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tormes”
- Russian: “Тормес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tormes”
- Slovenian: “Tormes”
- Spanish: “río Tormes”
- Spanish: “Tormes”
- Swedish: “Tormes”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tormes”
- Urdu: “تورمیس ریور”
- Venetian: “Fiume Tormes”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Tormes”
- Vietnamese: “Tormes”
- Welsh: “Tormes”
- Western Armenian: “Թորմես”
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Localities in the Area
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