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Climbs 80
Rocktype Granite
Altitude 784m a.s.l
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The Santa Luzia Dam is located in Beira Litoral, in the municipality of Pampilhosa da Serra, next to the small town of Casal da Lapa. It was built on the bed of the Unhais River, which is born 8km further north, in Meãs, at the foot of the "Picoto de Cebola" on a narrow quartzitic gorge and has hydroelectric use. It was inaugurated in 1942, taking eleven years to be built. In 1931 it began to be built, in 1934 the reservoir was surveyed, which ended in March 1935. It is 76 meters high and has a crowning length of 115 m.

The Santa Luzia hydrographic basin has 50 km2 and receives water from the Alto Ceira dam, channeled through a 6,945 meter long bypass tunnel. The work on the dam ended in 1942 with the closing of the floodgates in November of that year, by Companhia Eléctrica das Beiras. The hydroelectric power station is installed in a building outside the Dam and has 4 generator sets totaling 32 MW, producing 55 GWh in a normal year.

The name given to the dam came from the Ermida de Santa Luzia existing in the cliffs, on the edge of the parishes of Vidual and Cabril. This small chapel was erected in 1930, by Francisco Pedro Simões, a native of Malhada do Rei, in fulfillment of a promise (wikipedia source).

Fajão sector (10 routes,      
Brejos de Cima sector (4 ways,     
Escola do Penedo Barroco (40 ways
Santa Luzia School (50 sports tracks and 30 classic tracks, 

Many alpine routes , trad climbing, even if there a lot of lichen, to improve in this sector. Some ridge in the forests, multi pitches.

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