{"id":2449,"date":"2025-09-24T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openideas.site\/manzanareselreal\/que-ver\/%que-visitar%\/el-rio-manzanares\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:03:51","slug":"the-manzanares-river","status":"publish","type":"que-ver","link":"https:\/\/manzanareselreal.org\/en\/what-to-see\/the-manzanares-river\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manzanares River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At an altitude of 2,063 metres, in the <em>Ventisquero de la Condesa<\/em>, our beloved Manzanares River is born, giving its name to our village and part of its identity to the of inhabitants of the city of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>It has been an essential natural element for the history and development of culture in our region and, although it is not a very copious river, it is true that it is fed by several streams from its source, and its entire course is dotted with very varied landscapes that harbour many different species.<\/p>\n<p>The Manzanares River is never the same, in any of its stretches or at any time of the year. 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Its overexploitation led to the deterioration of the quality of its water and the disappearance of both plant and animal species along its banks.\r\n\r\nBut since 2016, when bathing was banned, nature has been able to reclaim its rights and our river is back to what it was, a spectacular orchard where we can enjoy a large number of plant species, typical of Mediterranean siliceous rivers, as well as animals and insects that live off the richness of the environment. Even our beloved otters, lost years ago, have returned to populate the upper course of the Manzanares.\r\n\r\nIts course is fed by the waters of the rocky streams, such as the <em>Condesa<\/em>, <em>Valdemart\u00edn<\/em> and <em>Majadillas<\/em>, and in the lower areas of our village it is fed by the <em>Mediano<\/em> and <em>Cortecero<\/em> streams, which pass through the village. The Manzanares River is also accompanied by the <em>Recuenco<\/em> Stream and the <em>Samburiel<\/em> River which, although not feeding into it, flow along together into the Santillana Reservoir and help to fill it.\r\n\r\nCascades, waterfalls, water jets and passes through plains and steppes are some of the landscapes it creates and crosses along its way down to the Manzanares Reservoir, from where it heads to the dam of <em>El Pardo<\/em> on its way to Madrid.<\/td>\r\n<td width=\"500\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manzanareselreal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/qv-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>"},{"que_ver_contenido_acordeon_titulo":"Its history in our region","que_ver_contenido_acordeon_descripcion":"<table cellpadding=\"20\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\u2018Manzanares, Manzanares, river\u2019s apprentice\u2019 said Francisco de Quevedo in his poems because, used to other great rivers of the peninsula, ours was small in its flow.\r\n\r\nBut, despite not being a large river, it was important enough to give settlement to populations and cultures from prehistoric times, as attested to by the numerous archaeological sites found in its vicinity, up to the present day.\r\n\r\nIts original name was <em>\u2018Guadarrama de Madrid\u2019<\/em> and that is how it was called until the 17th century when, apparently, the Duke changed the name to call it after the main town of his duchy, where the River Manzanares flowed through, and thus differentiating it from the River Guadarrama. It has also been the object of different modification projects to make it navigable, such as the impressive work in the 18th century that aimed to connect its course with that of the Guadarrama and Tagus Rivers to link them with the Guadalquivir River, and thus bringing the Atlantic Ocean to Madrid to make it accessible by boat.\r\n\r\nBeyond great feats, the truth is that the Manzanares River has been essential for our municipality: it has moved the wheels of our flour, iron and paper mills, it has irrigated our fields thanks to the <em>Caz de los Linares<\/em> and the <em>Caz de los Qui\u00f1ones<\/em> channels, it has been the washing place for our clothes, from where our grandmothers and mothers collected buttons to sew on shirts and trousers that had lost them, where we fished and where we cooled off in the summer.<\/td>\r\n<td width=\"500\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manzanareselreal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/qv-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>"}],"que_ver_contenido_extra_adicional":"","que_ver_galeria":[1184,1185,1186,1187,1188,1189,1190,1191,1192,1193,1194,1195,1196,1197,1198,1199,1200,1201,1202,3220,3221],"campos_plataforma":{"categoria_que_ver":["Deportivo","Ecoturismo","Naturaleza"],"subcategoria_que_ver":["Embalses, Lagos, R\u00edos y Aguas superficiales"],"duracion_que_ver":"","tipo_de_viajero_que_ver":["Familiar","Mochilero","Senior"]}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>que ver en manzanares el real - Patrimonio hist\u00f3rico y cultural<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"que ver en manzanares el real; 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