The Tâmega traces the boundary
Vive Cabeceiras · Geographical framework

A river that helps explain the south of the municipality.

The Tâmega follows much of Cabeceiras’s southern and south-eastern boundary. To the east, the municipality’s geographical introduction mentions the River Bessa. Water therefore helps locate the territory, alongside the mountains to the north and west.

The neighbouring municipalities to the south are Celorico de Basto and Mondim de Basto; Ribeira de Pena lies to the east. These references offer a starting point for reading the map before moving on to bridges, fields and the tributary network.

Complete the picture by looking to the other sides: Montalegre and Boticas to the north, Vieira do Minho to the north-west and Fafe to the west. Cabreira and Barroso frame the north; the Serra da Lameira frames the west. Administrative boundaries and the water network are two different ways to read the same territory: follow the tributaries next to see where the water goes.

Sources and context
Municipality — geographical framework
https://cabeceirasdebasto.pt/concelho-localizacao
Accessed: 2026-11-07

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