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Pulo do Lobo is a waterfall 17 km north of
Mértola Mértola () is a municipality in southeastern Portuguese Alentejo near the Spanish border. In 2011, the population was 7,274, in an area of approximately : it is the sixth-largest municipality in Portugal. Meanwhile, it is the second-lowest popula ...
, in the
Lower Alentejo The Intermunicipal communities of Portugal, Comunidade Intermunicipal do Baixo Alentejo (; English language, English: ''Lower Alentejo'') is an administrative division in Portugal. It was created in 2009. It is also a NUTS3 subregion of the Alent ...
region of
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian ...
. It is the highest waterfall in Southern Portugal. Its name means "w''olf's leap"'' in Portuguese; it was said that only a brave man or a wild animal when chased could leap over the gorge that was created by the waterfall. This waterfall is located at an altitude of between 33 and 35 metres in a very narrow gorge in the River Guadiana. Pulo do Lobo is the most dramatic stretch of the
Guadiana The Guadiana River (, also , , ), or Odiana, is an international river defining a long stretch of the Portugal-Spain border, separating Extremadura and Andalusia (Spain) from Alentejo and Algarve (Portugal). The river's basin extends from the ...
, where the "river boils between harsh walls, the rushing of water, hit, flow and wind gnawing a millimeter per century per millennium, a nothing in eternity" as
José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which he ...
, one of Portugal's most famous writers, wrote. The Pulo do Lobo is formed by the Guadiana river which separates Spain and Portugal. The waterfall is a very majestic sight and is full of native wildlife.


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