Você está aqui - Mondeguinho, Serra da Estrela, Portugal
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Mondego is a Portuguese river. The most important of all the ones that have it´s origins in Portugal.
Waymark Code: WMC0PV
Location: Guarda, Portugal
Date Posted: 07/11/2011
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The plaque has a map of the Serra da Estrela Natural Park with the main towns and villages, roads and water courses.
It has a brief history about the source of the Mondego river and the river itself.
Você está aqui (you are here) shows your location inside the park.
Parts of the plaque with information about the river were blurred on purpose due to a multicache that starts here.
About the Mondego
Mondego is a Portuguese river. The most important of all the ones that have it´s origins in Portugal.
The Mondego river has a lenght of 234 kms. Its source is in the Serra da Estrela regiom, in the municipality of Gouveia in a place called Corgo das Mós or ’Mondeguinho’ (Little Mondego), at an altitude of 1425 meters.
It´s initial course is across the Serra da Estrela from southwest to northeast in the direction of Guarda. Near the village of Vila Cortês do Mondego it reaches an altitude of 450 meters. At that pint it turns to Northwest and then, near Celorico da Beira, to southwest. Here starts it´s medium course across the Beirão Plateau.
After crossing Fornos de Algodres, Mondego acts as a natural border between the districts of Viseu, Guarda and Coimbra.
Between Penacova and Coimbra, the river runs trough a narrow valley known for it´s conditions for kayake and canoe practice.
Near Coimbra, the river starts it´s lower course. The last 45kms untill it reaches the Atlantic in Figueira da Foz running at an altitude of only 40 meters above sea level.
Parts of text adapted and translated from wikipedia
Location Name: Mondeguinho (Source of the Mondego River)
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