FERROLTERRA RIVERS

María García, Carlota Davila,

Andrea Durán, Ruth Pardo,

Jorge Rubianes4ºA

Rivers that we will talk:

Eume

Xubia

Rio Porto de Cabo

River Eume:

Born in the mountains of O Xistral (in the province of Lugo) and merges with the Atlantic in the Gulf Ártabro (northwest peninsular).Passes through the municipalities of Abadín, Muras, Vilalba, Xermade, As Pontes, Capela, Monfero, Cabanas and Pontedeume, where it empties after a journey of 80 kms, forming the Ria de Ares.

Legend about this river: An old legend says that when God created the three rivers that originate in the Xistral, Eume, Landro and Masma, promised every year life of a man who first came to the sea. The Eume, betrayed by the other two that left him sleeping, woke up angry and crossed valleys and mountains to reach the sea first, carving a wild and rugged channel, a channel and whitewater canyons carved in stone, set in the last redoubt of Atlantic forest. Such was the vengeance of men by such audacity that since mid-last century, have insisted on the river charged as those stolen lives dammed miles of runway, dry or contaminated. Today it is no longer can be said to be a river Eume alive. And since its birth in the Xistral sierra, low the river

Eume cheerful and wild Pontoibo only to where and waters begin to subside in the first reservoir .

River XubiaBorn in the mountains da Serra, at 460 meters high,

near Tafornelos, in the municipality of Somozas.

traverses the municipalities of San Saturnino Moeche and

traveling 31 km, flows between Jubia, in the

municipality of Santa Maria Narón and Neda, at the

bottom of the Ria de Ferrol, one of the largest in Galicia good to shellfishing. In the

river mouth, Jubia there are a mill which use to make bread by the force of the waters of the river for the

ships that leaving the port of Ferrol . Thanks to this and

other mills pulled the famous bread of currency which is an annual festival celebrates the

first Sunday in September.

Porto do cabo or das Mestas

The Rio das Mestas or Cape Porto do not be classified as highly attractive nautical tourism, for its extension, width and flow. The power of the criminal practice fishing is the main attraction.The river and its tributary Fervenza da Carballeira, has in its half bed a cascade interesting in nature tourism and scenic but both aren’t marked and the first with very difficult, almost impossible to access because the trails are overgrown with weeds.It is navigable by small boats to the Roman bridge of Porto do Cabo, only at tide high, being usual amongst some fishermen fishing in exercising its estuary.

Lower river belonging to the Atlantic.El Mestas born in Porto do Cabo (Moeche) of the union of several rivulets. Drain the interfluve between Mera and Cerdido Xuvia crossing through the southeast to northwest. After about 18 km long, flows into the beach Vilarrube (Valdoviño - Ria Cedeira) forming a broad estuary.Tributaries: Regueiro, Picadeiro, Fervenza do Carballeiro and Fraga da Regos and Cabanela.

Pages where we found the information

River Eume:http://blogueiros.axena.org/2012/11/12/las-fragas-del-rio-eumeel-ultimo-suspiro-del-bosque-atlantico/http://casteloandrade.com/rio.htmhttp://www.riosconvida.es/pdfs/informes/InformeEume-Endesa.pdfhttp://youtube.com/

River Xubia:http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Jubiahttp://www.galiciaparaelmundo.com/blog/?page_id=51&recurso_id=1144

River Porto do Cabo:http://guias.masmar.net/R%C3%ADos-y-Lagos/Galicia/R%C3%ADo-das-Mestas-o-Porto-do-Cabo-Comarca-de-Ferrolterra.-Moeche,-Cerdido-y-Valdovi%C3%B1o.-A-CORU%C3%91A