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Rio Douro (Oporto / Portugal)

Rio Douro (Oporto / Portugal)

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António Ramos

António Ramos


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Rio Douro (Oporto / Portugal)

The Douro talks of, is not hardly he willtalk about a river or about a region. It isgreat more than this. . . is to speak thewhole his history and of his people, whomake it so special.
To know I Gild it it is not hardly it willvisit the region, it is culture and the onlypersons leave in a travel to the discoveryof the only place, with a history.
There are several explanations for theorigin of the name I "gild". A legendcounts which era should usually seesrolling a few small and brilliant pedritas,that if it came to discover they weremade of gold. There is the one who saysstill that the name is due to the muddycolor of the waters of the river,consequence of the great quantities ofdebris that the torrents were draggingslopes is lowered by me and that sincethey are of a lively yellow they weregiving him a golden color. But there isstill the one who defends what thisname diverts of the Latin «Durius«, inother words, I "last", due to thehardness of his winding outlines of highand rocky steep slopes.
I gild the river that it is born in theMountain range of Urbión, in the northof Spain, her nearly 2000 meters ofaltitude. It is the second biggest river ofPortugal with a 927 km total length; inPortuguese territory, this river has only210 km of length and is navigable alongall this distance, thanks to five damsthat are, nowadays, also an attractiondue to his unevenness. The Dam of theCarrapatelo has an unevenness in thelevel of the 35 meters water, one of thebiggest unevennesses of Europe.
It was this river, in very narrow anddangerous times, what broughtprosperity to the region, visa that wasthrough him that there was done thetransport of the precious nectar, thePort. In the last centuries this river wasrepresenting a challenge and a dangerfor those who in him were sailing. It wasreplete of fortíssimas currents andsubmerged average stones. Then only asmall boat from wood – the Rabelo – wasmanaging to sail in these waters and todo the transport of the wine from theValley of the Douro even to the mouth ofriver, in which edges Nova de Gaia thereare situated the cities of Oporto andTown.

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