Cega (river)

River in Spain

41°0′55″N 3°51′4″W / 41.01528°N 3.85111°W / 41.01528; -3.85111 MouthDouro

• location

Province of Valladolid

• coordinates

41°32′57″N 4°46′3″W / 41.54917°N 4.76750°W / 41.54917; -4.76750Length133 km (83 mi)Basin featuresProgressionDouro→ Atlantic OceanRiver systemDouroTributaries • leftPirón [es]

The Cega is a river in the Iberian Peninsula a left-bank tributary of the Douro.

It is born out of the confluence of the Artiñuelo and the Vueltas creeks in the Sierra de Guadarrama.^[1] 133 km-long,^[2] the Cega, running northwest through the province of Segovia, empties in the Douro in the province of Valladolid, having previously received the waters of the Pirón,^[2] its main left-bank tributary.

References

^ Mejías Moreno, Miguel; Pozo Tejado, Jesús del; Albacete Carreño, Lourdes; Villarroya Gil, Fermín (2016). "El agua en la Sierra de Guadarrama" (PDF). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección geológica. (110): 76. ISSN 0583-7510.
^ ^a ^b Santiago Sáez, Jose María; García de Jalón Lastra, Diego; Alonso González, Carlos; Solana Gutiérrez, Joaquín (2013). "Comportamiento térmico de dos tramos fluviales de cabecera del Sistema Central: impacto del embalse de Torrecaballeros (Segovia)". La protección contra los riesgos hídricos. Barcelona: E.T.S.I. Montes (UPM): 154. ISBN 978-84-267-2070-2.