Alcoa River

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The Alcoa is a river in Portugal, which rises above Chiqueda in a circle Alcobaça ( Leiria District ) and after almost five kilometers, the city of Alcobaça reached where it joins the river Baca.

The city of Alcobaça forwarded after a view its name from the two rivers ago, while according to another view, the name of Arab origin ( Al - cobaxa ) should be, and after him the two confluent rivers in the city had been named. Prior to flow into the Alcoa nor the rivers Rio Seco and Rio Esperança and the Ribeira do Mogo. In Alcobaça the river was relocated during the expansion of the monastery probably. In Chiqueda the monks in the Middle Ages have in the River built its own water collection ( which was da Água, mother of the water called Mãe, ). This was the starting point for a 3.2 kilometer long - mainly underground guided in a channel - water pipe that supplied the monastery with fresh and clean water.

Although spoken by a meeting of the rivers Alcoa and Baca in Alcobaça, the river keeps on his another 12 km route to the sea, where it enters the Atlantic Ocean south of Nazare via different, partly artificially created for irrigation tributaries ( in Foz de Alcoa, the estuary of the Alcoa) his name Alcoa. Occasionally, one can, as in the old military maps as a description of the river to accommodate the river Baca also the name Rio Alcobaça or Rio de Fervença, the latter after a lying seaward of Alcobaça village which belongs to the municipality Maiorga where still in the early Middle Ages lagoon Pederneira sufficed and in which culminated the river. The official name, as well as in public documents, however, is Alcoa.