The Lagoa do Saloio (39◦ 36 48 N, 9◦ 00 57 W)
is a small lake situated 5 km east of the town of
Nazaré in the Valado de Frades forest, central coast
of Portugal. The lake is 70 m above sea level, 270 m
long, 72 m wide, and oriented west-southwest–eastsoutheast
(WSW–ESE). The site is a groundwaterfed,
interdunal lake (Queiroz & Mateus, 2004)
located on the border between Plio-Pleistocene sands
of the Valado de Frades complex and more recent
dunefields (Camarate França & Zbyszewski, 1963).
The local soils are mostly podsols and regisols with
fertile alluvial soils distributed along the Alcoa River.
