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Mountain Steep Permaculture - Permacultura em Declive de Montanha

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Commenced:	01/07/2012
Submitted:	09/08/2012
Last updated:	15/01/2018
Location:	Chão Sobral, Aldeia das Dez - OHP - Coimbra, PT
Climate zone:	Warm Temperate

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water - the treasure, terraces, tunnels and stream bed diversion

Project: Mountain Steep Permaculture - Permacultura em Declive de Montanha

Posted by João Gonçalves almost 12 years ago

pictures showing hand built structures, more than 100 years ago, earth works and stacked dry stone, still in use and if maintained to last for 1000's of years

Pic. 1 - "Earthworks for steep and warm temperate rocky country."

The seasonal water flows in this stream bed that crosses the old oxcart track sustained by a stacked dry stone retaining wall creating a waterfall.

The winter water flows from a tunnel that was built with stacked drystone only through a terrace retaining wall. This retaining wall supports a gently sloped fertile soil in a place known in the hamlet as "the gardens" / "as hortas".

The surrounding mountain area is very rocky, stream beds were the places where the first mountain dwellers-designers could easily find silt sediment enough to create terraces and closer to the spring water.

Other pictures of "hidrological structures" - terraces and walls built in stream beds, are located on this page:

http://chaosobral.org/ribeiros.htm

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To be continued, with more pictures.

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