Pulo do Lobo
| Pulo do Lobo | |
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 Pulo do Lobo | |
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| Location | Guadiana Valley Natural Park, Portugal |
| Coordinates | 37°48′14.83″N 7°38′0.82″W / 37.8041194°N 7.6335611°W |
| Total height | 20m -/+ |
| Watercourse | Guadiana River |
Pulo do Lobo is a waterfall 17km north of Mértola, in the Lower Alentejo region of Portugal. It is the highest waterfall in Southern Portugal. Its name means "wolf's leap" in English; it was said that only a brave man or a wild animal when chased could leap over the gorge that was created by the waterfall. [1] This waterfall is located at an altitude of between 33 and 35 metres in a very narrow gorge in the River Guadiana.[2]
Pulo do Lobo is the most dramatic stretch of the Guadiana , where the "river boils between harsh walls, the rushing of water, hit, flow and wind gnawing a millimeter per century per millennium, a nothing in eternity" wrote as José Saramago, one of Portugal's most famous writers.
References
- ^ "Pulo do Lobo". Retrieved 2015-03-25.
- ^ http://www.islamichistoryandtravel.com/pulo_do_lobo_waterfall_guadiana_river_photos.html