The Salas Reservoir is one of the most prominent landscape features in the municipality of Muíños. Built in 1971 on the Salas River, a tributary of the Limia, its vast expanse of water transformed the former valley and today forms part of one of the most distinctive landscapes of the Baixa Limia.
Its shores also preserve an extraordinary archaeological heritage, revealing that this territory has been inhabited for thousands of years. Casiña da Moura, A Casola do Foxo and the Outeiro de Cavaladre necropolis form part of the important megalithic complex of the Salas valley. The construction of the reservoir even required some of these monuments to be relocated in order to ensure their preservation.
Today, the Salas Reservoir offers a landscape where water, mountains and traces of ancient communities come together. The Megalithic Route along its shores provides an excellent opportunity to discover this close relationship between nature, archaeology and the human transformation of the landscape.
