Editing Douro (section)

==History==
[[File:Imagem255 Valbom, Ribeira d'Abade, Freixo, Campanhã, traineira, rio Douro. valboeiros. Postal antigo.1908 - 1.jpg|thumb|235px|left|A 1908 image of boats along the Douro River]]

In Roman times, the river was personified as a god, [[Durius]].

Part of the [[drainage basin]] might have been severely depopulated in the 8th century. According to [[Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz]] this was a deliberate act by [[Alfonso I of Asturias]] for the defence of his [[Kingdom of Asturias|Kingdom]], which led the area to be named [[Repoblación]].

The Douro ''vinhateiro'' (vine-land) of the [[Douro Valley]] in Portugal, long devoted to [[vineyard]]s, has been designated by UNESCO as a [[World Heritage Site]]. The wine was taken downriver in flat-bottom boats called ''[[Rabelo Boat|rabelos]]'', to be stored in barrels in cellars in [[Vila Nova de Gaia]], just across the river from [[Porto]]. Nowadays [[Port wine|port]] is transported there in tanker trucks.

In the 1960s and 1970s, [[dam]]s with locks were built along the river, allowing river traffic into the upper regions in Spain and along the border.

In 1998, [[Portugal–Spain relations#Present|Portugal and Spain]] signed the Albufeira Convention, an agreement on the sharing of [[trans-boundary river]]s to include the Douro, [[Tagus]] and [[Guadiana]]. The convention superseded an agreement on the Douro, signed in 1927, that was expanded in 1964 and 1968 to include tributaries.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spanish-Portuguese Albufeira Convention|url=https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cooperation_2013/albufeira_convention.shtml|publisher=United Nations|access-date=18 February 2015}}</ref>