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Trail of a Devesa da Rogueira

Folgoso do Courel, Quiroga, Lugo

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Trail of a Devesa da Rogueira

Activity · Folgoso do Courel, Quiroga, Lugo

Folgoso do Courel

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A trail signposted as PR-G 222 and the most walked route in the Courel mountains, climbing from Moreda through the massif's most valuable forest up to the Alto do Couto and the summit pastures, passing by the Fontes do Cervo, two adjoining springs with different waters, one ferruginous and one calcareous. The devesa da Rogueira, covering some 30 km², holds a remarkable richness of fauna and flora thanks to the meeting of oceanic and Mediterranean climates, with oaks, beeches, yews and birches, and is home to endemic species of the northern Iberian Peninsula such as the Iberian newt and the Iberian stream frog, as well as roe deer and wildcats; on its granite ledges the raven and the peregrine falcon nest. The forest received FSC certification in 2020 for its management and conservation of biodiversity.

Photo: Miguel Branco (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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