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Daniel’s Levada Directory

Levada do Rochao

Archival documentation — not a current hiking recommendation. Source file on danishome.ch last modified: 19 April 2022

Area

Santana/Northeast

Length

1,3 km

Madrei

Ribeira de Santo Antonio N 32°48.010 W 16°52.160 ca. 430 m a.s.l.

Course

From the Madre across fields to the crossing with the road from Cortado to Lamaceiros, on above the fields of Rochao, crossing with the Levada do Cortado, and the remaining fields to the north (in 2017 the last section was blocked by fallen trees and the water ran untidily onto a meadow)

End

Rochao ca. 390 m a.s.l.

Function and use

A small local levada for irrigating the fields at Rochao

Access

Condition

Straightforward

GPS / KMZ

Reports

Map

Photos

Madre and the first 100 metres to the road to Lamaceiros and Cortado

Road crossing, then through the wood and above the fields to the end