For Spanish people or residents: does the rain in Spain fall mainly on the plain?

Question

if not, where does it go then?

Answer 1

It falls mainly by precipitation on mountains or  high ground.  The coastal plains are usually dry and that is where the main growing area is located.  The mountain rain feeds into the rivers and lakes, as you will see when flying over the Spanish mainland.

Answer 2

no.  It falls in various parts of the country, but the plain is notoriously dry.  it's called La Mancha for a reason.

La Mancha means The Stain.  Because it's a Stain of semi-arid, mostly unproductive land.  well, used to be, anyway.  It has changed with modern technology and irrigation, but that's why it was named that some 1500 or so years ago.

And we can all thank Alan Jay Lerner for this little piece of useless false trivia.

Answer 3

I not no ...cos I wear ze big sombrero! Ole!

Answer 4

No. The rainiest parts of Spain are in the South and North -- the plain, La Mancha actually gets the least amount of rain.

Answer 5

Who knows.... but they do say the sun shines on the righteous!

Answer 6

I live in Spain and the rain falls mainly in Galicia - doesn't quite have the same ring to it though, does it?

Answer 7

The rain, in the main, is a pain in......Wales. Doesn't rhyme but so true.