Amarante is a city in the Oporto Region. It is crossed by a river that in Winter it often causes water floods in the lower areas of the city. On the walls of the buildings, we can see plates that mark the dates of the levels reached by the waters. (Cheia is the Portuguese words for water-flood)

Water pressure gauges (Lisbon Water Museum)
A thermometer that measures the atmospheric temperature. Seen on the façade of a store in Oporto.

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