Daniel’s Levada Directory
Levada do Poço Novo
Also known as Levada da Poço Novo
Archival documentation — not a current hiking recommendation. Source file on danishome.ch last modified: 13 July 2024
Area
Pombais, Santa Maria da Madalena
Length
2 km
Year built
A rather newer levada; on the 2004 satellite images nothing of a poço is visible yet, from 2011 it can be seen in the images
Madrei
Springs and trickles in a rock face below Poto da Vila N 32°50.709 W 17°11.725 ca. 615 m a.s.l.
Course
In that rock face the seepage and the springs are taken in and carried north-west, partly piped.
A rather rough passage is crossed on a stair- or ladder-like structure. After that the levada runs in the open through the wood.
It then runs above the twin levadas Levada dos Pombais inf. and Levada dos Pombais sup., in a ride cut through the wood, and is caught in a storage reservoir.
From here, above fields, to the crossing with the Caminho Fajã dos Bois. On to the crossing with the Caminho do Valinho and to the next road crossing; then the trace peters out in Santa Maria da Madalena
End
Santa Maria da Madalena ca. 475 m a.s.l.
Function and use
Irrigation of the fields above Pombais and Santa Maria da Madalena
Access
Caminho Fajã dos Bois
Condition
Straightforward; around the Madre possibly a little overgrown and exposed. Definitely not a tourist levada