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HIKING GUIDE
São Nicolau

The island of São Nicolau offers a wide range of interesting hiking tracks, most of them on former mule-roads, others on poorer tracks. The island’s physical geography is mountainous, in part rocky with considerable differences of altitude.

We selected 16 tracks according to criteria of security and beauty of landscape.

Tracks where climbing is required or tracks over irrigation channels called levadas are excluded. Whenever you find yourself on one of those, you can be sure that you lost the right track and have to go back immediately!

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Quadro sinóptico dos circuitos

Outline of tracks

Wegeübersicht

 

Tempo de marcha

avarage walking time

Wegezeit [h]

Qualidade de caminho

Quality of the track

Qualität des Weges

Navegação

Navigation

Tipo

Type

Typ

Weg Nr

Região Central, Central Region, Revier Zentrum

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Vila da Rª Brava - Pico Torto - Calejão

1

3

2

aB

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Calejão - Cabeçalim

1

1

1

aB

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Cabeçalim - Palso - Vila da Rª Brava

1

1-3

1

Ab

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Cabeçalim – Campinho de Sul

1

4

2

Ab

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Vila da Rª Brava – Rªa Brava – Campinho

1

2-4

2

ab

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Panoramaweg durch Campinho Norte

1

3

1

aa

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Campinho - Cachaço

1

1

1

aB

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Fajã - Queimadas

2

1-2

1

Ab

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Queimadas – Vila da Rª Brava

2

2-3

2

ab

Região Ocidental, Western Region, Revier westliche Halbinsel

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Monte Gordo – Cume, Summit, Gipfel

2 1/2

1-4

2

aB

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Monte Gordo - Rª dos Calhaus - Fragata

2

1-3

2

Ab

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Fajã de Cima - Assomada de Mançebo - Fragata

2

1-2

1

aB

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Fragata – Praia Branca

1 1/2

1-2

1

Ab

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Fragata – Rª da Prata

1 1/2

1-2

1

Ab

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Pico Agudo – Covoada - Fundas

5

1-3

3

ab

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Chã de Caldeira - Palhal - Hortalão - Ra dos Calhaus  NEW

3

1-3

2

ab

Região Oriental, Eastern Region, Revier östliche Halbinsel

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Juncalin‘ - Tope Simão - Carriçal

5

3-5

4

ab

Qualidade de caminho - Quality of the track - Qualität der Wege:

 

A primeira nota characterisa a qualidade na média, a segunda nota as passagens mais difíceis.
Die erste Note bezeichnet den durchschnittlichen Zustand, die zweite Note den Zustand der schwierigsten Stellen.
The first mark is on the average quality, the last one on the most difficult parts.

1

muito bom - very good - sehr gut
estrada ou caminho de mula - road or mule path - Straße oder Maultierpfad

2

bom - good - gut

3

satisfatorio - satisfactory - befriedigend

4

mau - poor - schlecht
descidas dificeis / cascalho - difficult descent / rubble - schwieriger Abstieg / Geröll

5

muito mau - very poor - sehr schlecht
em parte se vareda - partly without track - teils durch wegloses Gelände

Tipo - Type - Typen:

AB

no Planalto - on the highlands - auf der Höhe

Ab

descida - descent - Abstieg

aB

subida - ascent - Aufstieg

ab

de um vale ao outro - from one valley to the other - von Tal zu Tal

AA

Voltando ao mesmo lugar no alto - Coming back to the staring point on the highlands - Stichweg auf der Höhe

aa

Voltando ao mesmo lugar no vale - Coming back to the staring point in the valley - Stichweg im Tal

O

Circuito - Circuit - Rundweg

Navegação - Navigation

1

muito simples - very easy - sehr einfach

2

simples - easy - einfach

3

dificil em algumas localidades - in some places difficult - an einigen Stellen schwierig

4

dificil - difficult - schwierig

5

recomendável somente com guia local
recommendable only with local guide
nur mit einheimischen Führer zu empfehlen