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EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TODAY: SPAIN

Lowland Regions Spain’s largest lowland region is the Andalusian Plain in the southwest, a wide river valley carved by the Guadalquivir River. As the river nears the Atlantic Ocean, it grows wider until it flows into the Golfo de Cádiz. The Andalusian Plain lies between the Sierra Morena Mountains to the north and the Sistema Penibético to the south. Where these two chains of mountains meet in the east, the plain narrows to an apex. The Ebro River forms another lowland basin, contained by the Sistema Ibérico to the south and west and the Pyrenees to the north and east. A few smaller river valleys are close to the Portuguese border.

ABOVE: The Guadalquivir River flows from the mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.

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