Cávado River Mouth

Fort of São João Baptista and Cávado river mouth

The fort of S. João Baptista rises next to the mouth of the Cavado, on the river and sea. This building of seventeenth-century origins, ordered to be erected by D. Pedro II, but which saw its construction delayed by the next century. It was partially dismantled during the installation of the lighthouse and also when the work of rocking the Cávado bar took place.

The meeting of the Cavado river with the sea is a spectacle that deserves some time of observation and exhilaration ... The river is spreading in the estuary, in a slow curve towards the Atlantic. It is protected to the west by the Ofir and the source by the lands of Esposende. That ribbon of water runs uninterruptedly towards its end, plunging into the waters of the great Ocean.