Spain

With regard to the Balearic and Canary Islands, their specificities make it into the corresponding host items where found full physical description of both sets of general - in mountainous islands, rivers and virtually benign climatología.

Terrain and climate make Spain's rivers are generally, low and irregular flow regime. In the Galician Cantabrian slope emphasize the Bidasoa, Urumea, Nervion, Assos, Pas, Asturias Deva, Sella, Nalón, Navia, Mandeo, Tambre, Ulla and, above all, the Minho, with its tributary Sil.

The hard core forms the plateau, divided by the Central system into two sub-plateau: the northern, which corresponds to the Duero, and the south, where the Tagus and Guadiana basins, separated by the mountains of form Toledo.

The Cantabrian is steep and rocky, with many estuaries, coves and bays, capes and small, among which the Higuer, Machichaco, Mayor, Peña and Stake Bars. Marine starters are the estuaries of Guernica, Bilbao, Villaviciosa, Nursery and bars and bays Santoña-Laredo and Santander.

With an area of 500,000 square kilometers, Spain is second in size in Europe after France. Spain occupies most of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic islands east of the Peninsula and the Canary Islands are in the Atlantic, off the African coast.