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Adaja
The Adaja near Ávila
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CountrySpain
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationFuente Berroqueña
 • coordinates40°32′22.57″N 5°09′10.09″W / 40.5396028°N 5.1528028°W / 40.5396028; -5.1528028
Mouth 
 • location
Douro
 • coordinates
41°31′59.53″N 4°51′47.81″W / 41.5332028°N 4.8632806°W / 41.5332028; -4.8632806
Length163 km (101 mi)
Basin size
5,328 km2 (2,057 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression‹See Tfd› DouroAtlantic Ocean
Tributaries 
 • rightEresma

The Adaja[a] is a river located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain. A major left-bank tributary of the Douro,[1] it flows 163 kilometres (101 mi), and its river basin drains an area of 5,328 square kilometres (2,057 mi2).[2]

It has its source in the so-called Fuente Berroqueña (Villatoro, province of Ávila), near the saddle point between La Serrota [es] and the Sierra de Ávila.[2] Initially following a southwest-northeast course through the Amblés Valley, the Adaja then bends northward in Ávila, later receiving the contribution of its most important tributary, the Eresma, near Matapozuelos.[3] It empties into the Douro in the province of Valladolid near the town of Aniago [es].[4]

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