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Fontainhas Village
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February 23, 2018
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Once the much-branched irrigation system. Small levadas bring water from sources in the back valley area to the cisterns, from which banana plantations and sugar cane fields are irrigated.
The other idea is the narrow, stacked terraced narrow fields. The "poios" - as they are called - were not carved into the rock, but "glued to the slope like bird nests". In other words, first of all retaining walls are erected, then the terraces are filled with fertile, muddy ground
•March 12, 2019
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Distance 1.45 km
Uphill 90 m
Downhill 130 m
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