Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Location
- Serra da Vigia, Ourique
- Elevation
- 230 m (750 ft)
- Length
- 175 km (109 mi)
- Basin size
- 7,692 km (2,970 sq mi)
- Right
- Xarrama River
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Setúbal
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- 2007.03.23.pt.AlcacerdoSal.PonteFerro.Nova.jpg
- Length
- 180
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- Commons category
- Rio Sado
- mouth of the watercourse
- Atlantic Ocean
- watershed area
- 7640
- discharge
- 40.0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Sado ( European Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsaðu]) is a river in southern Portugal; it is one of the major rivers in the country. It flows in a northerly direction (the only major Portuguese river to do so) through 175 kilometres (109 mi) from its springs in the hills of Ourique before entering the Atlantic Ocean in an estuary in the city of Setúbal.
The estuary is the habitat of a large community of bottlenose dolphins; there are 31 members of the pod, each of whom has been named (2007).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sado River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.