The Andarax River or River Andarax —also, in its lower reaches, Almería River or River Almería —is a river in the province

Provinces of Spain

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 of Almería

Almería (province)

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, Andalusia

Andalusia

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, Spain

Spain

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. It arises in the easternmost part of the Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada (Spain)

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 in the Cerro del Almirez. Its entire course is within the province of Almería. It flows through they Valley of Andarax south of the Sierra Nevada, running easterly, and joins the River Nacimiento at the village of Terque

Terque

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, below which it is more commonly called the Almería River.

It then turns southward and passes through the Tabernas Desert

Tabernas Desert

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, where it receives the intermittent waters of the Rambla de Tabernas, its last significant tributary. It passes through the municipalities of Rioja, Pechina

Pechina

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, Viator

Viator

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, and Benahadux

Benahadux

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, where it waters many citrus

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 orchards. Finally, it reaches the sea on the outskirts of the city of Almería

Almería

Almería is a city in Andalusia, Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the province of the same name.-Toponym:Tradition says that the name Almería stems from the Arabic المرية Al-Mariyya: "The Mirror", comparing it to "The Mirror of the Sea"...

, forming a wide delta

River delta

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. The fertile plain of the delta has been slowly lost to the expanding city of Almería.

In the time of the Roman Empire

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, the river carried a larger volume of water, and was navigable as far as Pechina

Pechina

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.