Highlight • Gorge
Poios Canyon
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Bryan | Exploro Ergo Sum
December 8, 2025
Hiking
The Poio Valley stands as a well-kept secret of the mountains, preserved for centuries by its rugged, steep, wild, and inaccessible geography. Only shepherds and adventurers used to know these paths. Perhaps that is why a rare fauna found refuge here. It is one of the largest fluviokarstic canyons in Portugal, a valley patiently sculpted by water, which left monumental slopes and a breathtaking landscape.
To the south lies Poio Velho; to the north, the more famous Poio Novo, two chapters of the same magnificent landscape.
To the south lies Poio Velho; to the north, the more famous Poio Novo, two chapters of the same magnificent landscape.
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Fernando Ribeiro
September 7, 2021
Hiking
Good for photography and also wall climbing.
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Elevation 210 m
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