Besòs
Facts
16 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- watercourse, main stem[7]
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 41.546°, 2.251°, 🗺️ 41.419°, 2.233°[9][10]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Barcelona Province, Vallès Oriental, Vallès Occidental, Barcelonès[2][3][4][5]
Population and size
- Elevation above sea level
- 16.0
- Length
- 17.7
More facts +10
- Located in
- Barcelona Province, Vallès Oriental, Vallès Occidental, Barcelonès
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 41.546°, 2.251°, 🗺️ 41.419°, 2.233°
- Directions
- Polígon Industrial del Pla
- Discharge
- 4.33
- Drainage basin
- conca del Besòs
- Mouth of the watercourse
- Mediterranean Sea[8]
- Origin of the watercourse
- Besòs river origin[11]
- Tributary
- riera de Caldes, Congost River, Mogent, Tenes river, torrent de Vallençana, Ripoll[12][13][14][15][16][17]
- Watershed area
- 1038.31
- VIAF cluster ID
- 316429682
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Besos-River
- Freebase ID
- /m/05hf07
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -373535
- GeoNames ID
- 3128081
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- el-besos-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0009689
- Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID
- riu-besos-1, riu-besos-0, riu-besos
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 18281157
- Topic's main category
- Category:Besòs River
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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- 4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
← Located in or next to body of water 11
← Mouth of the watercourse 7
Tributary 5
Located in the administrative territorial entity 4
Instance of 2
Country 1
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Named after 1
← Inflows 1
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Summary
Besòs is a watercourse[1].
Body
Geography
Located in include Barcelona Province[2], a province of Spain[18], in Spain[19], founded in 1822[20]; Vallès Oriental[3], a comarca of Catalonia[21], in Spain[22]; Vallès Occidental[4], a comarca of Catalonia[23], in Spain[24]; and Barcelonès[5], a comarca of Catalonia[25], in Spain[26].
Physical Characteristics
Besòs's elevation above sea level is recorded as 16 m[27]. Besòs's length is recorded as 17.7 km[28].
Cultural Significance
Things named for Besòs include El Besòs i el Maresme[29], an administrative quarter in Barcelona[30], in Spain[31].
Why It Matters
Entities named for Besòs include El Besòs i el Maresme[29], an administrative quarter in Barcelona[30], in Spain[31].