Clube Náutico de Avis

The Clube Náutico de Avis Complex, where the river beach is located, offers a set of important infrastructures for the development of tourism in the municipality of Avis and in the Alentejo. Of these infrastructures we mention, in addition to the beach, municipal swimming pools, solarium, playground, rowing training track, picnic area, café / restaurant with terrace, public sanitary facilities, hangar for canoe and pedal boat rental and a tourism agent nautical with boat trips powered by solar energy and stand up paddle.
The river beach is located on one of the banks of the water body of Albufeira do Maranhão (code PT05TEJ1030). Albufeira do Maranhão, located almost entirely in the municipality of Avis, presents itself as a pole of high scenic and environmental potential. It constitutes a water reserve, destined for irrigation, still allowing the hydroelectric use and it is foreseen, since its construction, the possibility of serving as a source of water for public supply.
It is one of the Alentejo reservoirs with the greatest geological variety in the drainage basin, consequently providing the sedimentation of materials from different sources, with significant differences in terms of textures, mineralogy and geochemical characteristics.
The beach area is integrated in the land, in an area sheltered from winds and with gentle slopes that allow direct access to the water plane. This area is arranged on platforms in order to reduce the slope and be covered by sand. The bathing place is limited to the flow of the reservoir. The river beach and the bathing use to be identified are provided for in the PDM.
The influx of bathers is considered high in the summer, when the weather conditions are favorable for bathing activity. This turnout occurs mainly at weekends and in July and August.
In these summer months the reservoir may have a low flow.