The term comes from the Portuguese verb Levada "levar", the word for take away. Is meant to take away the water, but there is also another meaning. "Sometimes you can see in the channels of beer or wine bottles floating in the water. Stuck in the grids that exist at each Levada-keeper's house to collect leaves," says the expert Madeira. "The keeper knows then: Somewhere water is stolen, and the bottle is my bribe." The branches for private purposes is in fact not actually allowed. The levadas are especially important for the farmers in the South: There is only 700 millimeters of rain fall per year, whereas in the north make the trades for 3500 millimeters.
The term comes from the Portuguese verb Levada "levar", the word for take away. Is meant to take away the water, but there is also another meaning. "Sometimes you can see in the channels of beer or wine bottles floating in the water. Stuck in the grids that exist at each Levada-keeper's house to collect leaves," says the expert Madeira. "The keeper knows then: Somewhere water is stolen, and the bottle is my bribe." The branches for private purposes is in fact not actually allowed. The levadas are especially important for the farmers in the South: There is only 700 millimeters of rain fall per year, whereas in the north make the trades for 3500 millimeters.
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