Douro
The Douro is the largest river of the Iberian Peninsula by discharge. It rises at the Pico de Urbión, the highest summit of the Picos de Urbión, first flows through Duruelo de la Sierra in the Spanish province of Soria, meanders briefly south, then flows generally west through the northern part of the Meseta Central in Castile and León into northern Portugal.
- Type: Estuary
- Description: river in Spain and Portugal
- Also known as: “Douro River”, “Duero River”, “Duoro”, “Доро”, “Доуро”, “Дурый”, “დორუ”, and “杜羅河”
- Historically known as: “Uadi Duwiro”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lighthouse of São Miguel-o-Anjo and Cantareira Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bairro da Rainha D. Leonor and Cantareira.
Douro
- Categories: river, gold river, main stem, and body of water
- Location: Porto District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.14273° or 41° 8′ 34″ north
Longitude
-8.66032° or 8° 39′ 37″ west
Open location code
8CHH48VQ+3V
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Douro” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Douro”
- Arabic: “دورو”
- Arabic: “دويرو”
- Arabic: “نهر دويرة”
- Aragonese: “Río Duero”
- Armenian: “Դուերո”
- Asturian: “Ríu Duero”
- Basque: “Duero”
- Belarusian: “Дуэра”
- Belarusian: “Рака Дуэра”
- Bengali: “দোরু নদী”
- Breton: “Douro”
- Bulgarian: “Дуеро”
- Catalan: “Duero”
- Cebuano: “Douro (bokana)”
- Cebuano: “Douro”
- Chinese: “斗羅河”
- Chinese: “杜罗河”
- Chuvash: “Дуэро”
- Croatian: “Douro”
- Croatian: “Duero”
- Czech: “Douro”
- Dutch: “Douro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دويرو”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر دورو”
- Esperanto: “Doŭro”
- Estonian: “Douro”
- Extremaduran: “Dueru”
- Finnish: “Duero”
- French: “Douro”
- Galician: “Río Douro”
- Georgian: “დუერო”
- German: “Douro”
- German: “Duero”
- Greek: “Δούρος”
- Hebrew: “דורו”
- Hindi: “दयोरो”
- Hindi: “दोरू नदी”
- Hungarian: “Duero”
- Icelandic: “Douro”
- Ido: “Fluvio Durio”
- Indonesian: “Douro”
- Interlingua: “Fluvio Duero”
- Interlingue: “Duero”
- Irish: “Douro”
- Italian: “Duero”
- Japanese: “ドウロ川”
- Kazakh: “Дуеро”
- Kazakh: “Дуэро”
- Kirghiz: “Дуэро”
- Kirghiz: “ДуЭро”
- Korean: “도루 강”
- Korean: “도루강”
- Ladin: “Douro”
- Latin: “Durius”
- Latvian: “Douru”
- Latvian: “Dvero”
- Lezghian: “Дуэро”
- Lithuanian: “Dueras”
- Livvi: “Douro”
- Luxembourgish: “Douro”
- Macedonian: “Дуеро”
- Mingrelian: “დუერო”
- Mirandese: “Riu Douro”
- Mongolian: “Дуэро гол”
- Northern Frisian: “Douro”
- Northern Sami: “Douro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Douro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Douro”
- Norwegian: “Douro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Douro”
- Ossetian: “Дуэро”
- Persian: “دورو”
- Polish: “Duero”
- Portuguese: “Douro”
- Portuguese: “Rio Douro”
- Romanian: “Duero”
- Russian: “Дуэро”
- Scots: “Douro”
- Serbian: “Дуеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Douro”
- Slovak: “Douro”
- Slovenian: “Duero”
- South Azerbaijani: “دورو چایی”
- Spanish: “Duero”
- Swedish: “Duero”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Duero”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำโดรู”
- Turkish: “Douro Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Дору”
- Upper Sorbian: “Duero”
- Uzbek: “Duero”
- Venetian: “Duero”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Douro”
- Walloon: “Aiwe di Dwero”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Duero”
- Welsh: “Afon Douro”
- Western Frisian: “Douro”
- Western Panjabi: “دویرو”
- Wu Chinese: “杜罗河”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Sampaio and Afurada de Baixo.
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Highlights: Pedras do Lima and Jardim de Sobreiras.
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