 Currently it is navigable from the Gulf of Cádiz to Seville, but in Roman times it was navigable to Córdoba.The river is long and drains an area of about .It rises at Cañada de las Fuentes (village of Quesada) in the Cazorla mountain range (Jaén), flows through Córdoba and Seville and reaches the sea at the fishing village of Bonanza, in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, flowing into the Gulf of Cádiz, in the Atlantic Ocean.