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Meaning of guadarrama




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

guadarrama
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It is the name of a town and a municipality of the Community of Madrid. Name of an inland mountain range in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain). Name of Spanish river tributary of the Tagus. The word as such means river of the sand or sandy river. Some authors also define it as a watershed.

  




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GUADARRAMA from the Latin 'aquae dirrama'. The hydronym became the oronym of the Sierra de Madrid. Another interpretation thinks that the Muslims heard the line of summits of the Long Rope called Guadarrama, today called Bola del Mundo, and will assimilate it to the Arabic Wad al-Rámal, 'river of the sand' and will assign it to two of the rivers that are born of the mountain system alluded to Locality and Spanish municipality located in the northwestern part of the Community of Madrid, 50, 5 kms from the capital of Spain. It has about 20. 000 inhabitants .

  



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