View over Tejo River from São Jorge Castle in Lisbon (June 2002).
Tagus (LatinTagus, SpanishTajo, PortugueseTejo) is the largest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It measures 1,038 kilometers in length, 716 km of which are in Spain, 47 km as border between Portugal and Spain and the remaining 275 km in Portugal.
The source of the Tagus is the Fuente de García, in the Albarracín mountains. It ends in the Atlantic Ocean by Lisbon.
The geographical location of Aranjuez, in the confluence of the biggest river of the Iberian peninsula, the Tajo, and its main affluent, the Jarama, it has labeled the historical existence of the Royal Place, and its peculiar climate and vegetation.
In the context of the castillan plateau, Aranjuez appears as a leafy island of natural wild wealth, thanks to the abundance of water and to the fertility of sedentary soils of the valley that form both rivers.
The history of Aranjuez is the history of the Tajo and the effort by mastering the rivers: to contain them, to cross them, to retain them, to navigate them.
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