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The Sar river

Padrón, Sar, A Coruña

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The Sar river

Nature · Padrón, Sar, A Coruña

The Sar river, a tributary of the Ulla on its right bank, rises at 335 metres above sea level beside the AVE high-speed rail tunnel of A Sionlla, in the Compostelan parish of Bando; it runs 42 kilometres through Santiago, Ames —where it passes through its capital, Bertamiráns—, Brión and Rois, and empties near Padrón, in the parish of Iria Flavia. Its final stretch is protected within the Natura 2000 network. On its banks stands the collegiate church of Santa María del Sar, a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) since 1895, and in 2020 a carving of the Virgin, possibly from the 14th century, was found in its riverbed. Rosalía de Castro gave the river its name in her poetry collection En las orillas del Sar. Despite the pollution it suffers from Santiago's discharges, otters, herons and ducks still live along its banks.

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga Commons)(Lmbuga Galipedia) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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