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Way Of The Lighthouses
The Way of the Lighthouses, or the Lighthouse Way ( gl, Camiño dos Faros, es, Camino de los Faros) is a hiking trail along the Costa da Morte ('Coast of Death') in the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It joins Malpica with Finisterre along the coastline linking the lighthouses and landmarks along the way. The name of the route refers to the numerous lighthouses built on the Costa da Morte during the 19th and 20th centuries to make navigation safer. The route is divided into eight segments, averaging . The shortest segment is from Laxe to which measures , while the longest is from Camariñas to Muxía which measures . From north to south, on its way from Malpica to Fisterra the trail passes through the municipalities of Malpica, Fisterra, Ponteceso, Cabana de Bergantiños, Laxe, , Vimianzo, Camariñas, Muxía and Cee. Small crosses along the coast memorialize drowned gatherers (''Spanish: percebeiros'') of goose barnacles (''Spanish: percebe gallego''), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Ferida
A Ferida (''English: The Wound'') is a sculpture located in the municipality of Muxía, A Coruña, Spain. Made by sculptor, , it faces the Atlantic Ocean, outside the entrance of the Virxe da Barca sanctuary. The granite sculpture stands more than in height and weighs 400 tons. The granite came from O Porriño, and it is the largest sculpture in Galicia and Spain. Background The work was donated by Seguros Aegon to the Muxián council as a tribute to the volunteers who came to help the Galician people when the Prestige oil spill The ''Prestige'' oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker , carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 ... occurred on November 13, 2002. It was inaugurated on September 12, 2003. Gallery A Ferida escultura en Muxía 05.jpg, A Ferida A Ferida escultura en Muxía 03.jpg, A Ferida A Ferida escultura en Muxí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabana De Bergantiños
Cabana de Bergantiños or Cabana is a municipality in the Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It used to be known as ''Cesullas''. Main sights * Castro de Borneiro: an Iron Age hillfort. * Dolmen of Dombate: a dolmen of the Neolithic. * Torre da Penela: tower of an ancient castle. File:Castro de borneiro 01.jpg, Castro de Borneiro File:Torre da Penela 2.jpg, Torre da Penela File:Dolmen de Dombate - Cabana de Bergantiños - A Coruña (excavacións 2009).jpg, The dolmen A dolmen () or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BCE) and were somet ... of Dombate during an archeological excavation File:Capela de San Fins.jpg, San Fins chapel Demography Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) id:b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mean Sea Level
There are several kinds of mean in mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ..., especially in statistics. Each mean serves to summarize a given group of data, often to better understand the overall value (magnitude (mathematics), magnitude and sign (mathematics), sign) of a given data set. For a data set, the ''arithmetic mean'', also known as "arithmetic average", is a measure of central tendency of a finite set of numbers: specifically, the sum of the values divided by the number of values. The arithmetic mean of a set of numbers ''x''1, ''x''2, ..., x''n'' is typically denoted using an overhead bar, \bar. If the data set were based on a series of observations obtained by sampling (statistics), sampling from a statistical population, the arithmetic mean is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anllóns
The Anllóns is a Galician river that begins in the Xalo Mountains at an elevation of above sea level and flows into the Atlantic via the Ria of Corme and Laxe. Along its course, it crosses the municipalities of Cabana de Bergantiños, Carballo, Cerceda, Coristanco, and Ponteceso. Its average flow is . It was declared a Site of Community Importance in the year 2001. It is fed by brooks like the Graña, Quenxe, Acheiro, Abaixo, Queo or Bertón during its high course. After the pass at Mount Neme, it receives the water of the brooks Gándara, Bandeira, Vao, Galvar, Portecelo or Batán, and in its low course its tributaries include the brooks Lourido, Ponteceso, Prados and Bouzas. See also * List of rivers of Spain * Rivers of Galicia The rivers of Galicia form part of a dense hydrographical network in the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia and has been described by Otero Pedrayo as “the land of a thousand rivers”. Most rivers are not deep enough to be navigable, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Pondal
Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente (February 8, 1835 – March 8, 1917) was a Galician (Spain) poet, who wrote in both Galician and Spanish. Of Hidalgo origin, Pondal was the youngest of a family of seven. From 1844 onwards he studied Latin in a school in Vilela de Nemiña which belonged to his cleric relative, Cristobal Lago. In 1848, he moved to Santiago de Compostela to study Philosophy and, afterwards, Medicine at University. As a student, he was a regular at Liceo de Santo Agostiño, a place where literary debates took place. There, he was discovered as a poet during the banquet of Conxo. It was a banquet organized by liberal students in 1856 to honor "the third state", and where students rubbed shoulders with laborers. The toasts are retrospectively considered to have an important political meaning. In 1860, Pondal completed his studies and began working as a doctor for the Spanish Army at Ferrol. He also published A Campana de Anllóns, his first poem in the Gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Os Pinos , Cuba, where it was performed for the first time in 1907. It was officially adopted by the Galician authorities in 1977.Himno Gallego"Os Pinos" (; ) is the official anthem of Galicia, in Spain. The lyrics were written by Eduardo Pondal (the two first parts of his poem ''Queixumes dos pinos'', "Lamentations of the Pines") and the music by Pascual Veiga. It was composed in Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. /ref> Lyrics In popular culture In WC1982, at the Poland vs Italy match at Vigo, ''Os Pinos'' was played mistakenly instead of ''Mazurek Dąbrowskiego' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabo Roncudo, Corme
Cabo is Spanish, Portuguese and Galician for cape. It may refer to: * Cabo San Lucas, a resort city in Baja California Sur, Mexico * Cabó, a municipality in Alt Urgell, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain Other places * Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica * Cabo Corrientes (municipality), a municipality in Jalisco, Mexico * Cabo Delgado, a province of Mozambique * Cabo Frio, a Brazilian municipality * Cabo Orange National Park, Amapá, Brazil * Cabo Polonio, a hamlet in the Rocha Department, Uruguay * Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, a municipality situated on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico * Cabo Verde, the Portuguese name for Cape Verde * San José del Cabo, a city in Baja California Sur, Mexico, part of Los Cabos with Cabo San Lucas Capes: * Cabo Branco Lighthouse, a cape in the extreme est of the entire Americas. Joao Pessoa, Brazil * Cabo Catoche, the northernmost point on the Yucatán Peninsula * Cabo Corrientes, Chocó, a cape on the Pacific coast of Colombia * Cabo Corrientes, Cuba, a cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virxe Da Barca Sanctuary
The Virxe da Barca sanctuary is a church located in Muxía, Spain. It was destroyed by a fire that was started by lightning on 25 December 2013. History The sanctuary was originally a pre-Christian Celtic shrine and sacred spot. This part of Spain was resistant to conversion to Christianity, and was only converted in the 12th century. The Christians built a hermitage on this location at first, and later the present church in the 17th century. Gallery File:"A BARCA" Santuario - Muxía- A Coruña.jpg, Towers File:Porta no Santuario da Virxe da Barca, Muxía.jpg, Gate File:Escaleiras no Santuario da Virxe da Barca, Muxía, Galiza.jpg, Stairwells File:Retablo (desaparecido) del santuario de la Virgen de la Barca (Mugía, La Coruña).jpg, Interior, before fire File:Santuario da Virxe da Barca, Muxía.jpg, The sanctuary is near to the sea See also * List of destroyed heritage This is a list of cultural heritage sites that have been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. It often refers to those submerged ridges, banks, or bars that rise near enough to the surface of a body of water as to constitute a danger to navigation. Shoals are also known as sandbanks, sandbars, or gravelbars. Two or more shoals that are either separated by shared troughs or interconnected by past or present sedimentary and hydrographic processes are referred to as a shoal complex.Neuendorf, K.K.E., J.P. Mehl Jr., and J.A. Jackson, eds. (2005) ''Glossary of Geology'' (5th ed.). Alexandria, Virginia, American Geological Institute. 779 pp. The term ''shoal'' is also used in a number of ways that can be either similar or quite different from how it is used in geologic, geomorphic, and oceanographic literature. Sometimes, this term refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipwrecking
Shipwrecking is an event that causes a shipwreck, such as a ship striking something that causes the ship to sink; the stranding of a ship on rocks, land or shoal; poor maintenance; or the destruction of a ship either intentionally or by violent weather. Causes Factors for the loss of a ship may include: * poor design or failure of the ship's equipment or hull - pressure hull * instability, due to poor design, improperly stowed cargo, cargo that shifts its position or the free surface effect * navigation errors and other human errors, leading to collisions (with another ship, rocks, an iceberg (), etc.) or running aground (''Costa Concordia'') * bad weather and powerful or large waves or gale winds: This often leads to capsizing, also referred to as ''foundering'' * warfare, piracy, mutiny, or sabotage including: guns, torpedoes, depth charges, mines, bombs and missiles * fire * biofouling, such as accumulation of polychaete and other tube worms on wood hulls * overloading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
