Vigo Ria is an estuary in Galicia, Spain. It is the southern most ria of the Rías Baixas.
The Vigo estuary links its two diversely oriented ovals, joined by the narrowing of Rande. The bay of Vigo itself opens to the ocean between the points of the Subrido and Estaya, defended from the Atlantic impetus by the two Cíes Islands, of former geographical name, high shining and jagged rocks, which in the distance from the interior pretend alpine perliles and from Bayonne or the sea they seem to record in their plastic the shape of the waves, and contrast with the classically Galician silhouettes of the summits that surround the Rias. The two Cíes (Faro, the one of the North; San Martin, the one of the Sar) have acute and good anchorages (beach of the Lake, point of Bicos), towards the interior, determine two good entrances, better the one of the Sar, to the estuary. They seem to continue the direction of Mount Ferro. Other opinions consider them as ruins of lands other than Galician, such as the Berlingas of the Portuguese coast.
Otero, Pedrayo, R,. ( 198o) Guía de Galicia. Vigo. Ed:Galaxia.
Galería de imaxes da ría de Vigo
Vigo
Monument to the galleons of Rande
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