Lagoa do Vento
Cliff-fed mountain pool below a waterfall, reached by forest trail and draining toward a taller cascade.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lagoa do Vento, the Lagoon of the Wind above Rabaçal on Madeira, is about what sits upstream of the waterfall in front of you. It follows the Ribeira do Lajeado and the Alecrim stream, a hand-cut water channel at around thirteen hundred metres, and the hydroelectric station down on the Calheta coast. Listen from the rocks at the edge of the pool, where you can hear the fall and see where its water leaves.
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