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Portuguese mountain range Serra da Estrela – it’s a bizarre a pile of huge boulders, sometimes with a house, as well as many beautiful lakes with clear water, similar to blue saucers, in which only sky looks and sometimes mischievous clouds drop in. This amazing landscape, unique and even somewhat fantastic, created here by a glacier that was once completely covered this region, and then moved away, creating all these inconspicuous and in at the same time so attractive natural pictures.
And among all this splendor there is a lake with a real “hole”. Yet from far away the traveler who accidentally got here seems to be somewhere the waterfall is noisy, but when it rushes to this drain, then, in ultimately, from the top of the hill he sees something amazing, almost frightening: the lake in which the huge funnel is located. And this funnel rapidly runs away water, as if trying in a matter of minutes to suck out a mountain lake.
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However, no fiction or even any natural anomaly not here at all. The hole in the lake is artificial, since reservoir – Konchos reservoir of the Lagoa Komprida hydroelectric power station. A the “terrible funnel” in it is just a hydraulic drain excess water. Therefore, the funnel in the lake is far from constant, in winter and in the summer it can hardly be seen here, but in the spring, when in the mountains snow melts and water rushes down, overflowing local lakes, including including this reservoir, it shows such a fantastic, simply bewitching whirlpool.
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Conchos Reservoir has existed in Portugal since 1955, for 60 over the years, he fit into the local landscape so much that a man getting here, simply refuses to perceive this lake as artificial education. Hence, such a high popularity of his tourists who just love to come here with a view admire this fabulous “hole” in the lake, which is nothing more, it seems no different from all the other lakes of the ridge Serra da Estrela.
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