Trilhos de Porto Carreiro - PR8MCN
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.99 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,355 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 1,355 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,053 ft
- TrailRank
-
53
2.7
- Min elevation
- 260 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 3 hours 49 minutes
- Time
- 6 hours 23 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2591
- Uploaded
- May 8, 2022
- Recorded
- May 2022
near Vila Boa de Quires, Porto (Portugal)
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Itinerary description
An easy trail of 14.5 kms starting by the Igreja de Santo André in Vila Boa de Quires.
Taking you through rural settings for 1.6 kms you discover the Obras do Fidalgo (partly constructed ruin).
Around 5.0 ms you have to use the main road for 800 meters, before continuing your decent to near (but not alongside) the river Tamega at 7.8 kms.
As you start the return climb, at around 8.4 kms you climb past rocks, over small bridges, with rivers and small waterfalls (see photographs).
Then follows a further 4.5 kms steady climb, before heading back to the church at the start point.
Rated Easy, well marked, 4.5.
Taking you through rural settings for 1.6 kms you discover the Obras do Fidalgo (partly constructed ruin).
Around 5.0 ms you have to use the main road for 800 meters, before continuing your decent to near (but not alongside) the river Tamega at 7.8 kms.
As you start the return climb, at around 8.4 kms you climb past rocks, over small bridges, with rivers and small waterfalls (see photographs).
Then follows a further 4.5 kms steady climb, before heading back to the church at the start point.
Rated Easy, well marked, 4.5.
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So much of this trail is on roads--either main roads or in neighborhoods. As you pass by houses you will be assaulted by SO MANY barking dogs, some on chains, some loose. We had to carry rocks to throw toward them. It was not relaxing at all. Sadly, this was not a great experience.