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Hundreds of Portuguese locations nominated as ‘Natural Wonders’
Hundreds of different locations from north to south of mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores, have been nominated as candidates to become one of Portugal’s ‘Seven Natural Wonders’
The official list of places that can be voted upon was made public last Thursday in Lisbon.
Organisers of the project New 7 Wonders of Portugal, have dodged giving the specific number of valid applications, but confirmed the number was in “the hundreds”.
After assessing some 800 locations, a whittled-down list of final candidates was released this week.
The competition takes into account ‘Marine and Non-Marine Aquatic Areas, Caves and Grottoes, Beaches and Cliffs, Forests and Countryside, Large Landscapes (which includes mountains, valleys, mountain ranges and rock formations, amongst others) and Protected Areas’.
According to the ‘7 Natural Wonders of Portugal’ website,Non-Marine Aquatic Areas was one of the categories with those valid applications,the Óbidos Lake, Alvor Ria (Portimão), and the rivers Mouro (Monção), Alva (Moura Morta, Poiares), Douro (Peso da Régua) and Paiva (Arouca).

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