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Nature Attractions In Mertola

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Mértola is a municipality in southeastern Portuguese Alentejo near the Spanish border. In 2011, the population was 7,274, in an area of approximately 1,292.87 square kilometres : it is the sixth-largest municipality in Portugal. Meanwhile, it is the second-lowest population centre by density with approximately 5.62 persons/1 square kilometre . The seat of the municipality is the town of Mértola, which has around 2800 inhabitants , located on a hill over the Guadiana River. Its strategic location made it an important fluvial commercial port in Classical Antiquity, through the period of Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Mértola's main church was the only ...
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  • 1. Parque Natural do Vale do Guadiana Mertola
    Guadiana Valley Natural Park is a natural park in southeastern Portugal. It is one of the 30 areas which are officially under protection in the country. The top of the flow gage tower was reached by the Guadiana twice in 50 years.
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  • 2. Pulo do Lobo Mertola
    Pulo do Lobo is a waterfall 17km north of Mértola, in the Lower Alentejo region of Portugal. It is the highest waterfall in Southern Portugal. Its name means wolf's leap in English; it was said that only a brave man or a wild animal when chased could leap over the gorge that was created by the waterfall. This waterfall is located at an altitude of between 33 and 35 metres in a very narrow gorge in the River Guadiana.Pulo do Lobo is the most dramatic stretch of the Guadiana , where the river boils between harsh walls, the rushing of water, hit, flow and wind gnawing a millimeter per century per millennium, a nothing in eternity wrote as José Saramago, one of Portugal's most famous writers.
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  • 4. Praia Da Rocha Praia Da Rocha
    Praia da Vitória , translated as the Beach of the Victory, is a municipality in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. With a population of 21,035 , the second largest administrative authority on the island of Terceira, it covers an area of 161.27 square kilometres , that extends from the northern coast halfway into the interior.
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