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Entrance to the "malecón": ancient commercial port

  • River Anllón´s promenade
  • Ramón Piñeiro
  • River Anllón´s promenade
  • Encarna
  • River Anllón´s promenade
  • River Anllón´s promenade

Entrance to the "malecón": ancient commercial port

Along the River Anllóns's current promenade and running along the last five kilometres of navigable channel, we begin to recall part of the maritime history of these waters. 

After the war, Portuguese lumber companies introduced pine logging into the area. Bergantiños' forests yielded abundant raw material that was distributed throughout Spain from Corme's port. These castles of boards are a memory from this golden age, when Ponteceso was home to nineteen steam-driven sawmills and two electric ones.



Entrance to the "malecón": ancient commercial port

The seawall (and earth and rock dyke) entrance was also a meeting point for gabarras (motor-driven wooden barges). These were used to extract sand from the riverbed, which was then dried in the holding areas located on the banks of the river. Even today you can see the remains of some of these holding areas, along with some of the old iron bollards where the boats were moored.

Until just a few years ago, during the winter season when the tide would fill up this area, it was common to see sport anguleiros (eelfishers) on the coldest nights of the winter fishing for eel or flounder using traditional methods such as the estacada (a wooden construction giving fishermen access to the river) and the fisga (fish gig).

Your path along the seawall will be crossed by tamarisks, a kind of bush that is able to resist very harsh weather conditions.


Links

  • GAC 3 Costa da Morte
  • Fondo Europeo de Pesca
  • Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente
  • Consellería do Medio Rural e do Mar
  • Web municipal Ponteceso
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