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Mount Xalo

Culleredo, Coruña, A Coruña

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Mount Xalo

Nature · Culleredo, Coruña, A Coruña

Monte Xalo is a mountain chain that separates the Mero and Anllóns basins and stretches for three kilometres between Carral and Laracha, on the boundary between Culleredo and Cerceda; its highest point is 514 metres, one of the highest points on the A Coruña coast. Its slopes of heathland and rocky outcrops, protected for their natural value, are shared between Culleredo, Carral and the neighbouring municipalities, and conceal burial mounds found in 1950 by the archaeologist Luis Monteagudo, now partly gone. From O Petón, an outcrop at the top set up for climbing, one commands the whole district: the Sabón power station, the outer harbour, Alvedro airport and the Tower of Hercules. A project to install Galicia's largest wind farm here was ruled out by Aena on grounds of airport safety.

Photo: el Buho nº30 from O Burgo, A Coruña, Galicia (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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