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Rodão terraces

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  • Rodão terraces

  • Alentejo

  • Vila Velha de Ródão

  • Portas de Ródão Natural Monument

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  • Access from:

    - Vila Velha de Ródão (± 4 km) – N18, before Centroliva turn right to a dirt road that can be in bas conditions. There are no signs so you can only get to the site if you have GPS.

     

    GPS (viewpoint): 39.633084, -7.645652

     

     

  • Staircase with 6 terraces of sedimentar aggradation, respectively, of Foz de Enxarrique, Sra. Da Alagada, Monte Famaco, Monte dos Concelos and Monte do Pinhal, important to understand the way fluvial landscape have evolved here.

     

    Aggradation - sediment deposition on a low area that increases its elevation, typically in a river system.

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