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Coa
Côa
The Côa is a tributary of the
Douro river, in northeastern
Portugal.The "Côa Valley" is the site of ancient carvings in stone. It is of particular interest due to its high concentration of art, and because it covers a period of many thousands of years (primarily 40,000 BC to 10,000 BC, with additions made as recently as the last millennium). It also differs from many
paleolithic art such as
Lascaux in that it is found outside of caves, on rocks in plain sight. The drawings attracted worldwide attention when plans to build a
hydroelectric dam across the Côa Valley threatened to submerge them. Although hydroelectric development was already well underway, outcry from locals, the scientific community and the media led to dam construction being halted in 1995, not before a significant proportion of the drawings in the Canada do Inferno area were already underwater. The Côa Valley Archaeological Park (Parque Arqueológico do Vale do Côa)
[1] was opened in 1996, and was declared a protected
UNESCO world heritage site
[2] in 1998.
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CoA
coa (f)
n.
spade, long-handled digging tool with a narrow iron blade that is pressed into the ground with the foot (Central America, Caribbean and Mexico); slang used by members in organized crime (Southern Cone)
coar
v.
strain, leach; percolate; flow
coa
N F
lustful woman; (wearing fine Coan silk?); fictitious nickname of Clodia (L+S)
Cous
ADJ
of/from/belonging to Cos (island in Aegean| now Stanchio); (its wine/fine silk)