Sar (river)

{{short description|River in Galicia, Spain}}

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{{Coord|42.84819|-8.64757|region:ES_type:river|display=title}}

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The Sar is a river in Galicia, Spain.{{cite journal|author=Rosario Planelló|display-authors=et. al.

| title=Transcriptional responses, metabolic activity and mouthpart deformities in natural populations of chironomus riparius larvae exposed to environmental pollutants | journal=Environmental Toxicology | volume=30 | issue=4 |year=2015| doi=10.1002/tox.21893 | page=385|pmid=23893657

|bibcode=2015EnTox..30..383P

}} Rising near Santiago de Compostela, it flows through the A Maía valley for over {{convert|30|km|mi}} before entering the Ulla River, near Padrón.

Pomponius Mela (d. 45 AD) mentions it (Sars) in De situ orbis libri III and the Galician poet and novelist Rosalía de Castro wrote a well-known collection titled En las Orillas del Sar ("On the Banks of the Sar") in Castilian Spanish.