Levada do Marocos 3

Madrei

Old Madre in the Ribeira do Machico N 32°44.084 W 16°48.235

Current: branch off the Levada do Canical N 32°44.130 W 16°48.150 ca. 230 m a.s.l.

Course

Directly below the Levada do Canical, a crossing of 3 paths up and an access road as far as the passage of the Ribeira das Cales on a levada bridge. A further path up to the Levada do Canical and the Levada do Marocos 4 lying above, a crossing of the PR-5 to the Casa das Funduras, to the Portela pass and to the gravel-track network between the Casa das Funduras and the Portela pass. Crossing of the new access road, a climb to the levadas above, and the end at an access road. On to the Ribeira Grande; here the levada course was interrupted in 2021. Dry onwards to above Moinho da Serra, where water comes in from the Levada do Canical. Course over the fields towards Ribeira Seca, passage of the Ribeira Seca above the hairpin of the main road.

More or less along the road, first below it, then above it, as far as Poco do Gil, where the levada ends.

End

Fields above Marocos ca. 195 m a.s.l.

Function and use

Irrigation of the northern slopes of Marocos, Ribeira Seca, Poco do Gil

Access

• Various descents from the Levada do Canical

• From the Estrada dos Marocos over the bridge and along the new road to the crossing with the levada

• From the end of the road that branches off the Caminho da Escola Nova in Marocos

• Via the PR-5, which begins here, or a descent from the Casa das Funduras and the gravel-track network

• From the end of the road that branches off the Caminho da Escola Nova in Marocos

• PR-5

• To the end by an access road

Condition

Easy

Remarks

• The levada is dry at times, but in 2014 work was being done to extend it; an easy path, used by the farmers as a connecting route

• A circular walk with the other Marocos levadas and the Levada Nova de Machico