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The valley expands and the Ebro's flow then becomes slower as its water volume increases, flowing across Aragon. There, larger tributaries flowing from the central Pyrenees and the Iberian System discharge large amounts of water, especially in spring during the thawing season of the mountain snow.
North of the river there is the Sierra de Alcubierre ranges (811 m) one of the typical limestone plateaus of the valley. The Ebro Valley is a tectonic pit filled with sedimentary materials, accumulated in the Tertiary age in horizontal series. In the center, fine materials such as clays, plasters and limestones were deposited.
Map of the Ebro valley Source of the Ebro in Fontibre The middle Ebro in Zaragoza Final section, in Miravet Floods of 2003, in Novillas (). In 1913, the First National Irrigation Congress was held in Zaragoza, exposing the idea of setting up a community group of an economic and supra-regional nature through the federation of the agricultural, commercial and industrial associations of the whole ...
The Romans carried out various divisions of the peninsula throughout the history of their Empire: Division of 197 B.C. (its limits were not precise, since only the coastline was dominated): Hispania Citerior: Ebro Valley and Mediterranean coast. Hispania Ulterior: Guadalquivir Valley.
The building is an authentic Castle-Palace, one of the best that Gothic art bequeathed to the Crown of Aragon, dated to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Part of the ancient population of Mequinenza can be visited today because it has become a large outdoor memory park after its demolition and flooding by the Ebro swamps. The original ...
The kingdom of Najera (923—1076) was a kingdom located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula between the years 923 and 1076, it covered the territories of the valley of the Ebro River, from the current Miranda de Ebro to Tudela. It was the precursor of the kingdom of Navarra and cradle of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragón.
In the past many water-mills were powered by the river, but now only ruins of these remain. The valley of the Jiloca is an ancient route between the Meseta Central, the Ebro and the coast of the Levante. Many Roman bridges remain in the pueblos of the valley. [5] [15]
Lower Aragon was divided into the smaller administrative comarcas after the official delimitation of the Comarcas of Aragon in 1999. Its historical limits fall now within the Bajo Aragón, Bajo Aragón-Caspe, Bajo Martín, Andorra-Sierra de Arcos, Matarranya and Ribera Baja del Ebro comarcas, as well as some municipal terms of the Maestrazgo, Campo de Belchite, Bajo Cinca and Cuencas Mineras ...