Access coming from:

- Manteigas (± 12 km) - N338

- Covilhã (± 19 km) – N339 e N338;

- Seia (± 37km) - N339.

GPS: 40.328288, -7.587035

The best place to realize the grandeur of the Cântaros and the Covão da Ametade is the ascent of the N338 from Manteigas. In fact, Covão da Ametade (see the arrow on the photo) lies at the base of the Cântaros, a depression (one of the several glacial circuses of the Estrela that are known there as covões) where once the ice accumulated in the head of the Zêzere valley, about 200 m downstream from Covão Cimeiro. Being poorly drained accumulated sediments that now allow the growth of trees. Downstream is the Covão da Albergaria.

To the west and upstream of the Covão da Ametade there is a rocky convexity, which almost closes Covão Cimeiro. Surrounding the whole Covão da Ametade are the well-known Cântaro Magro (with 1928 m, a place to observe the blackbird), Cântaro Raso and Cântaro Gordo (1875 m), all geossites and these last two are old nunataks standing out in the landscape, since they are great rocky outcrops of granite, poorly fractured.

This sequence of depressed and poorly drained areas is typical of mountains that have suffered glaciations, originating small lakes along the valleys, possible to see in the Estrela mountain range.

At the base of the cove is the spring of the river Zêzere and there arise polished rocks and grove marks formed by the glacier.

The morphology of the Covão da Ametade was modeled on the Quaternary (Pleistocene) during the Würm glaciation (which had the maximum in the Estrela mountain range around 20,000 years BC), on granite rocks formed in the Upper Carbonipherous by cooling of the magma that rose through the fractures.

The place has a picnic park, a pleasant place to relax, with open areas, trees and the river, being an excellent place to look for small forest birds, such as the Coal Tit (Parus ater), the Common Firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla), Bonelli's Warbler (Phylloscopus bonelli) the White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) and the Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), as well as other more common ones.

There’s a car parking near the entrance.