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Douro
(redirected from Rio Duero)

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Dou·ro  (dôr, dr) also Due·ro (dwr)
A river rising in north-central Spain and flowing about 772 km (480 mi) westward then southwestward along the Spanish-Portuguese border. It enters the Atlantic Ocean at Oporto.

Douro [ˈdʊərəʊ (Portuguese) ˈdoru]
n
(Placename) a river in SW Europe, rising in N central Spain and flowing west to NE Portugal, then south as part of the border between the two countries and finally west to the Atlantic. Length: 895 km (556 miles) Spanish name Duero
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Douro [ˈdʊərəʊ] NDuero m


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They pray in two of the country's three greatest Gothic cathedrals in Leon and Burgos, study at one of the world's oldest and most influential universities in Salamanca, cast for five-pound trout in the Rio Duero and excavate the remains of Europe's oldest inhabitants in the Sierra de Atapuerca.
 
 
 
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