Guadalmina River

Fallen dry mouth of the Río Guadalmina

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The Río Guadalmina (ie Wadi of the mines ) is a short coastal river in southern Spain, which runs completely in the Andalusian province of Malaga.

With a length of 28 kilometers, it rises in the Sierra Bermeja in the community Igualeja. Regularly water he leads from the town of Benahavis, where he Angosturas fed by the karst aquifer in the area of ​​Las.

It flows into the city of Marbella near San Pedro de Alcántara.

The river was to drive grain mills in the past is of strategic importance for the defense of the town of Benahavis, where his water also serves. In this village there is the Guadalmina Reservoir, is branched off of the water to get it to access the reservoir of La Concepción on the Rio Verde, which fuses the Rio Guadalmansa and the Rio Guadaiza. The water intake will cause the Río Guadalmina dry falls in the dry season in the lower reaches.

The lower reaches of the river is heavily urbanized, so there many homes threatened with flooding when heavy rains over fill the reservoirs.

Near its mouth there are Roman baths from the third century and the remains of the basilica of Vega del Mar, an early Christian church from the fourth century.

• River in Europe
• River in Andalusia
• Geography (Andalusia )
• Mediterranean water system