The ábrego (from the Latin africus, wind from Africa) is a southwesterly wind blowing over the Iberian Peninsula, laden with Atlantic moisture and frequently associated with the arrival of fronts and depressions from the Atlantic. It is one of Spain's rainiest winds, especially across the western half: Galicia, Portugal, Extremadura, western Castile, and Atlantic Andalusia. The ábrego occurs when a deep depression sits to the north or northwest of the Peninsula, generating a subtropical maritime airflow toward the Iberian southwest. This warm, very humid air rises upon encountering mountain systems, producing abundant orographic precipitation. The highest accumulations are recorded in the Grazalema mountains (Cádiz), where the ábrego contributes to making this the wettest point in Spain (>2,000 mm/year). In Spanish tradition, the ábrego contrasts with the cierzo (cold and dry from the north) and the solano (warm and dry from the east). While the cierzo and solano desiccate, the ábrego irrigates: it is the wind that fills reservoirs and sustains the pastoral landscape. Its name persists in toponymy and popular culture, where "ábrego wind" is synonymous with imminent rain. In the classical Mediterranean wind rose, it occupies the 225° position (southwest), also called libeccio in Italian.