PONTAL DA CARRAPATEIRA

Being one of the largest gastronomic delicacies in the region, along with the lapas, burgaus, mussels, fried morays, navalheiras and choco fried, the local restaurants - from the most modest to the best known - serve this famous snack with intense sea flavor. What the fossils say about the Earth But if living crustaceans make the delights of local gastronomy, there are also corals, marine animals, bivalves, mollusks, shells and sea urchins sedimented in the high cliffs of Pontal da Carrapateira and which due to the erosion of the wind are now exposed. Embedded in sedimentary rocks, fossils prove that, in times prior to Man's existence, Planet Earth was populated by species of animals and plants now extinct... It is possible to find Lutra lutra otters that use the marine habitat, sheltering in the maritime cliffs and adjacent ravines, as well as badgers Meles meles that excavate burrows in the cliffs, drainage Herpestes ichneumon and fuínhas Martes foina. The existence of caves makes..

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