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River Cabe

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Cabe is a river in the province of Lugo, Galicia (Spain), Spain, tributary of the Sil River. The river is 56 km long and flows through the municipalities of Inicio, Puebla del Brollón, Monforte de Lemos, Pantón and Sober, Lugo. It occupies an areas of 1577 hectares and has contamination problems in some spots in its southern end. It was called "Chalibe" in the period of Ancient Rome. The fish that inhabit the river are the trout, family of the Salmonidae, the bog Leporinus obtusidens, the common carp Cyprinus carpio and some "black-bass", Micropterus salmoides floridanus, fish introduced into North American rivers called black perch.

Flows through: Spain.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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