Estação da Biodiversidade da Boca do Rio

Share Image

Estações da Biodiversidade (Biodiversity stations) are marked public trails, with information panels (also in English) on the biodiversity of those places. Each station is in an area of high specific and landscape richness, representative of the characteristic habitats of the area. This Station, with 8 points of interest (P), starts with the panel that gives you a warm welcome and explains what a Biodiversity Station is. Take the footpath and climb up to the cliff to the right before the beach. On the way up, look at the landscape and the Roman ruins. Read the panel relating various plants with insects that depend on them. "P2 - Plants and insects of the limestone cliffs of the Southwest." Look back and watch part of Budens marsh and the cliff ahead a little further back, catch a glimpse of the ruins of Fort S. Luís de Almádena. Continue walking northwest up to P3 dedicated to birds "P3 - Look at the sky, sea and shrubs." Try to find them. Go a little more to the northwest to P4 where you will find more information about plants and insects. Almost at the highest point of the route is"P5", observe the landscape and vegetation of the cliffs. Continue straight until you reach Rua (street) dos Pescadores. Turn right and then right again to enter a path not paved until you reach P6. Continue down with care, since the road is also used for automobiles. You get to the P7 with information about the Mediterranean scrubland on calcareous. Further down is P8 with more information about the flora and fauna. Enjoy the descent to the starting point and take a peek over Budens marsh.