Douro
The Douro is the largest river of the Iberian Peninsula by discharge. It rises near 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Estuary
- Description: river in Spain and Portugal
- Also known as: “Douro River”, “Duero”, and “Duero River”
- Historically known as: “Uadi Duwiro”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Três Bicos Lighthouse and Lighthouse of São Miguel-o-Anjo.
Lighthouse of São Miguel-o-Anjo
Historic site
Photo: JotaCartas, CC BY 3.0.
The Lighthouse of São Miguel-o-Anjo is a former hermitage and 16th century lighthouse, in the civil parish of Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde, municipality of Porto, in the Portuguese Norte Region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cantareira and Foz do Douro.
Foz do Douro
Suburb
Photo: Henrique Matos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Foz do Douro is a former civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde.
São Pedro da Afurada
Suburb
São Pedro da Afurada is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Santa Marinha e São Pedro da Afurada.
Douro
- Categories: river, gold river, main stem, and body of water
- Location: Porto District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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: “Дору”
- Belarusian: “Дурый”
- 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”
- Chinese: “杜羅河”
- Chuvash: “Дуэро”
- Croatian: “Douro”
- Croatian: “Duero”
- Czech: “Douro”
- Czech: “Duero”
- Dutch: “Douro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دويرو”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر دورو”
- Esperanto: “Doŭro”
- Estonian: “Douro”
- Extremaduran: “Dueru”
- Finnish: “Duero”
- French: “Douro”
- French: “Duero”
- Galician: “Río Douro”
- Georgian: “დორუ”
- Georgian: “დუერო”
- German: “Douro”
- German: “Duero”
- German: “Duoro”
- German: “Durius”
- German: “Rio Douro”
- German: “Río Duero”
- Greek: “Δούρος”
- Hebrew: “דורו”
- Hindi: “दयोरो”
- Hindi: “दोरू नदी”
- Hungarian: “Duero”
- Icelandic: “Douro”
- Ido: “Fluvio Durio”
- Indonesian: “Douro”
- Irish: “Douro”
- Italian: “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: “Доро”
- Macedonian: “Доуро”
- 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: “Дору”
- 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”
- Spanish: “Río 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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