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El Corazón de Los Arribes
Paseo de Canalejas 106-108
Salamanca
Castilla y León
92 326 99 19
Type: Water Sports
Cost: The one-hour boat rides cost 9 Euro and two-hour rides are 15 Euro
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Salamanca
Castilla y León
92 326 99 19
Type: Water Sports
Cost: The one-hour boat rides cost 9 Euro and two-hour rides are 15 Euro
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The River Duero cuts a dramatic, meandering course through granite hills and steep gorges on Salamanca’s western border with portugal. This frontier scenery is a world apart from the staked plains of the provincial interior.
Known as Los Arribes, a grouping of quiet villages populates the banks and valleys around the Duero from the Aldeadávila dam in the north to the Saucelle dam in the south. On the same stretch, four smaller rivers, the Agueda, Uces, Tormes and Huebra, empty into the Duero from the east, adding their own impressive swaths through the granite landscape.
The water, a dark emerald in color, flows slowly past Los Arribes, forming deep and wide pools at regular intervals, before it veers west across Portugal in the direction of the Atlantic. Leisure boating is paramount. In the summers, tourists can pile into large pontoon boats that run the course or rent canoes for guided floats.
Arrangements can be made at the rural tourism office Quinta de la Concepción next to the Presa de Saucelle (Saucelle dam), a
few kilometers west from the village of the same name and north of the village Hinojosa de Duero. The pontoon ride costs 10 Euro per person and takes a little over an hour each way; it is best enjoyed with a bottle of wine and a pair of binoculars to view the many endangered raptors that make their nests in the granite cliffs of Los Arribes.
These include Egyptian and griffon vultures, golden and Bonelli’s eagles, and on a truly blessed day, eagle owls and black storks. (The latter are black except for a white underbelly, thus distinguishable from the more common white stork that only has a band of black along its wingtips.)
Another guide service operates out of Salamanca should you want to make plans ahead of time. El Corazón de Los Arribes runs their pontoon boats on the smaller rivers that converge on the river Duero. The one-hour boat rides cost 9 Euro and two-hour rides are 15 Euro.
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