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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.
With most of Aragon's defenders wiped out, the French III Corps under General of Division Jean-Andoche Junot and V Corps under Marshal Édouard Mortier rapidly conquered the Ebro River valley. The powerful fortress of Jaca meekly surrendered to Mortier on 21 March 1809 and the towns of Monzón and Fraga were soon occupied.
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.
On 2 November the Nationalists occupied the Pandols Range and on 3 November the right flank of the Nationalist forces reached the river Ebro. On 7 November Móra la Nova fell and by 10 November the Nationalists had occupied Mount Picossa. [47] On 16 November the last men of the 35th recrossed the Ebro at Flix and the battle ended. [41]
The city was taken by Alfonso I of Aragon on 18 December 1118, [2] causing the Ebro valley to collapse, with the Aragonese taking Tudela in February 1119 and conquering Calatayud in 1120. [ 3 ]
The Aragón (Spanish: Río Aragón; Basque: Aragon Ibaia) is a river in northern Spain, one of the left-hand tributaries of the river Ebro.It rises at Astún (province of Huesca) in the central Pyrenees Mountains, passes southwest through Jaca and Sangüesa (), and joins the Ebro at Milagro (), near Tudela.
[3] Fortún campaigned with Alfonso extensively in the Ebro valley, and many of his lands were acquired there after conquest. Muslim-owned lands would have been taken into the king's possession and disposed of as he saw fit. Many went as gifts to the high nobility and continued to circulate among them on an open market.
These are a series of ponds linked by channels. [3] From Monreal the river flows northwards and near Luco de Jiloca , the Jiloca is joined by its only tributary, the Pancrudo, [4] which rises 46 kilometres (29 mi) away in the Sierra de la Costera. [5] From this point there is an irrigation channel which waters a small valley near Daroca. [6]