The water draws paths

Target between water and relief

The Tâmega helps to situate the municipality, while Cabreira, Barroso and Lameira appear in the descriptions of the territory. These names are a starting point to understand valleys and slopes. A landscape reading explains relationships; the choice of a path also requires consulting the form and the conditions of the route.

• The Tâmega draws the limitA river to understand the south of the municipality.
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• Cabreira, Barroso and LameiraThree names to guide the look.
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The water also had work

The Peio connects to the memory of the grinding. In the levadas, the path of the water approaches devices and fields: observing a water outlet, a channel or a mill allows you to ask how the movement was harnessed. It is not necessary to imagine that all ancient elements continue to work to understand this system.

• Peio also made flourA river connected fields, dams and mills.
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• Follow the path of the waterThe Levada de Víbora approaches nature and human labor.
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And when the water ran out?

Imagine two portraits written that same year. In Alvite, the vicar described in 1758 small springs in the Serra da Orada, whose waters were kept in prey to water. The lack of mills led residents to look for grinding in other parishes, and olive oil mills used animal force.

In Santa Senhorinha, the abbot described a river that ran all year long, although with little water in the summer, and identified mills and mills in places of the parish.

The two memories show different answers to the relationship between water, work and displacements. Try drawing two columns: where water was stored, what moved the devices and what works depended on these resources? Santa Senhorinha's description was signed on 23 May: the summer mentioned is a pattern reported by the author. These documents help compare the past; they do not identify equipment currently visitable or confirm the conditions today.

• Store water coming from the hillSmall springs helped water the fields.
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• The river entered the life of the fieldsA cultivated margin also tells history.
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A river is more than a bed

The trees and vegetation of the banks are part of the river environment. Reading the rivers Peio, Gold and the riverside of Cavez adds names to the landscape; that of the riverside forests helps to look at the connection between water and land. Compare the environments without turning a historical reference into a current description of each bank.

• The river also has a forestThe trees of the shores are part of the landscape of the water.
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• Peio, gold and stream CavezWater also organizes the work of the fields.
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