Daniel’s Levada Directory

Levada de Santo Antonio

Also known as Levada da Fontanheira

Archival documentation — not a current hiking recommendation. Source file on danishome.ch last modified: 12 June 2020

Area

Santana

Length

3,2 km

Madrei

Side branch of the Ribeira dos Pregos N 32°47.305 W 16°52.480 ca. 540 m a.s.l.

Course

The Madre is also supplied by a small inflow from the side stream. The course runs first through the wood, with occasional turn-offs to the adjoining fields, as far as the Estrada da Feiteira de Cima; here a short detour to the reservoir east of the road, then along the Caminho Antigo da Feiteira de Cima to the junction with the ER-213.

Beside the Estrada de Santo Antonio and the Caminho dos Lamaceiros and, after that ends, across meadows to the Impasse dos Lamaceiros. From here across fields and meadows to the Caminho do Cortado. On across fields and side streets to the Estrada de Santo Antonio. Following that road, then north onto the fields for the irrigation of the northern Lombo de Santo Antonio around the Miradouro de Santo Antonio.

End

North of the Lombo de Santo Antonio (Miradouro de Santo Antonio) ca. 390 m a.s.l.

Function and use

Irrigation of the fields on the Lombo de Santo Antonio.

Access

From the Estrada da Feiteira de Cima
From the ER-213
From the Impasse dos Lamaceiros, and from the opposite direction on the path that comes from Cortado and the Levada de Lamaceiros.
From the road off the Caminho do Cortado
Along the Estrada de Santo Antonio