A Charca do Alligal de Codesido
- Location
- Codesido, Lugo, Galicia, Spain
- Water type
- iron-rich
- Temperature
- 16 °C
- pH
- 6.3
Water profile
Stimulating — wakes the body and boosts circulation.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
A Charca do Alligal de Codesido is a ferruginous mineral spring pool in Galicia, northwestern Spain, whose Galician name roots it firmly in the local landscape and the dense network of named water features that characterise this water-rich region. The iron-rich waters give the pool a distinctive reddish-brown tinge and a characteristic mineral taste long associated in Galician folk medicine with tonic, revitalising, and anaemia-combating properties. The spring is a quiet emblem of Galicia's extraordinary mineral water wealth, where iron-rich sources emerge alongside sulphurous, bicarbonated, and thermal springs in remarkable natural diversity.