This route takes on a journey of discovery to see five waterfalls in the municipality of Mazaricos. The distances between some of them are quite long, so we’d recommend combining a car and your legs for this route. There is one group of three: Vioxo-Chacín, Santa Locaia and Gosolfre, to the east of the municipality, near O Pino do Val, all of which can be seen on foot. Then take a car to the waterfall of Fírvado, and finally there’s the waterfall of A Noveira, in the parish of Arcos, which is the one that’s furthest away. We’d also recommend not doing the whole route in one day.

Start the route by visiting the waterfall of Vioxo-Chacín, on the river O Casteliño. Then walk to the one at Santa Locaia, near the hermitage with the same name. Local people also call it O Pozo das Campás (the Bells Well), because of a legend about the place.

The third one, Gosolfre, is harder to get to on foot, and so it’ll take a little more time to get there, but the route goes through a beautiful indigenous forest full of oak trees.

The fourth waterfall, Fírvado, is close to Suevos, where two streams meet. The charm of the place is in the combination of waterfalls and natural pools to be found here. One of the pools is called Pozo Negro (black pool), and there is a legend that a golden mattock is submerged here that emerges above the water on Midsummer’s Eve. This legend also appears in other rivers where there are deep pools.

The fifth and final waterfall is A Noveira on the river Arcos, which is a tributary of the Xallas, near the reservoir of Santa Uxía. It is especially famous for the pools that were carved into the granite by water erosion. The natural pools make it a very popular place for swimmers in the summer.