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Guadiana

[ Spanish gwah-thyah-nah; Portuguese gwuh-dyah-nuh ]

noun

  1. a river in SW Europe, flowing S from central Spain through SE Portugal to the Gulf of Cádiz. 515 miles (830 km) long.


Guadiana

/ ɡwaˈðjana; ɡwəˈðjənə /

noun

  1. a river in SW Europe, rising in S central Spain and flowing west, then south as part of the border between Spain and Portugal, to the Gulf of Cádiz. Length: 578 km (359 miles)
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Example Sentences

Carter rejected the proposal by Bridgeland attorney Ernest Guadiana to swap an acre and a half of its property and increase royalties from 2.5% to up to 5.5% based on the price of oil.

“Do I hear 51%,” he repeatedly asked Guadiana, who said that figure would put the operation out of business.

While some of the images this summer — graphic hunger stones being discovered in Germany, a 450-kilogram World War II bomb being removed from a riverbed in Italy and sheep taking shelter underneath a medieval bridge on the dried bed of the Guadiana River in Spain — are eye catching, Europe last saw a significant drought not that long ago, in 2018.

Many other rivers in Spain contain the same Arabic root word for valley or riverbed, like the Guadalmedina and the Guadiana.

Neither Guadiana or Scherer have commented publicly on the papers.

From Reuters

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