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Lighthouse of Cabo Ortegal

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Lighthouse of Cabo Ortegal

Monument · Cariño, Ortegal, A Coruña

The lighthouse stands on Cabo Ortegal, the second northernmost cape of the Iberian Peninsula after Estaca de Bares and the western limit of the Bay of Biscay, which marks the symbolic divide between the Atlantic and the Cantabrian Sea; to the west, the cape borders the Ría de Ortigueira, a Ramsar wetland and a special protection area for birds. It is a cylindrical tower painted white and red, overlooking the void above the crags of Os Aguillóns, three rocks already mentioned nineteen centuries ago by Ptolemy under the name Trileuco, which until the 1970s held Spain's most important colony of common guillemots, now extinct; it marks one of the most feared navigation points of the north-western peninsula and is the most visited viewpoint of the municipality of Cariño.

Photo: Aleuze (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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