Galicia (Spain)
Galicia is poetically known as the "country of the thousand rivers" ("o pais dos mil rios"). The largest and most important of these rivers is the Minho, known as O Pai Mino (Father Minho), 307.5 km (191.1 mi) long and discharging 419 m3 (548 cu yd) per second, with its affluent the Sil, which has created a spectacular canyon. Most of the rivers in the inland are tributaries of this fluvial system, which drains some 17,027 km2 (6,574 sq mi). Other rivers run directly into the Atlantic Ocean as Lerez or the Cantabrian Sea, most of them having short courses. Only the Navia, Ulla, Tambre, and Limia have courses longer than 100 km (62 mi).
What is Galicia is poetically known as?
country of the thousand rivers
Galicia is poetically known as the "country of the thousand rivers" ("o pais dos mil rios").
Galicia