Sotavento surpasses 300,000 visitors. The 300,000th visitor was a 16-year-old girl from CPI Santa Lucía de Moraña.

Throughout 2024, we received a total of 9,192 visitors, distributed across 243 visits, representing an increase of nearly one thousand people compared to 2023. In this way, Sotavento establishes itself as a leading center in energy education training for Galician students and those from other autonomous communities.
40% of participants in our educational activities came from Secondary Schools, followed by technical groups and Primary Schools as the most significant groups. Additionally, during this year we developed specific teacher training activities.
Furthermore, Sotavento constitutes an ideal tool for the wind energy sector, and this year numerous drone pilot courses were conducted for wind turbine inspection, as well as rescue drills and plans adapted to wind turbines.
Among other activities of interest, we highlight our participation in Enerxetika 2024 (Silleda Energy Fair) and the reception in May of the ambassadors from the 27 countries of the European Union.
In the tourism sector, and as has been customary in recent years, Sotavento generates interest among major tour operators that offer the park’s activities to various cruise lines. Thus, both in this concluding year and in 2025, various international cruises calling at Galician ports will visit this unique facility.
For the first half of 2025, 4,000 people have already scheduled appointments at Sotavento, and we maintain a waiting list of more than 1,000 students for the next academic year.

A new academic year is starting and, with it, we are launching another edition of the Renewable Photography Contest. The winner will receive a cash prize of €400.

The photographs must focus primarily on the Sotavento Experimental Wind Farm and may be submitted by email until June 20, 2024 to the following address: info-divulgacion@sotaventogalicia.com

Anyone may participate; there is no age limit. The contest rules are attached in the following PDF document.

13TH RENEWABLE CONTEST

On Tuesday, September 23, the application period opens for managing school visits for this academic year. Due to high demand from the education community and the general public, Sotavento cannot guarantee dates to carry out the activity during the current school year for all requests.

Sotavento has an energy education activity programme carried out in facilities of more than 1,000 m2, including a real bioclimatic house as a highlight. Energy efficiency and its environmental and economic impacts in the use of different energy sources are key aspects around which the educational plan is structured.

In addition, activities are also carried out in the educational centres that request them: a format in which educators and materials travel to the schools themselves.

To arrange a visit, you can contact us by phone at 981 563 777 from 9:00 to 11:00 and from 12:00 to 14:00.

Once again, the Sotavento Renewable Photography Contest, now in its thirteenth edition, presented a cash prize of €400 to its winner. The photograph selected by the jury from more than twenty entries was “Viaje gélido entre algodones” (Icy journey among cotton) by Ilda Gregorio Corral, a native of As Pontes de García Rodríguez.

The main objective of this photography contest, which is open to anyone regardless of age with an image of the Sotavento Experimental Wind Farm, is to promote the world of renewable energy in general and the concept of Sotavento in particular.

As we have announced recently, the new Permanent Orienteering Track Sotavento | Serrón do Lobo is now open to the public. We are glad to invite you to this amazing outdoor activity to enjoy with family and friends and suitable for all ages and physical conditions, since there are 5 different routes to choose with various lengths and technical levels. Furthermore, this is a great opportunity to enjoy the natural environment and breathtaking scenery that surround the wind farm.

In order to celebrate the inauguration of the track, all the participants that complete the track during August 2021 will get free access to a guided tour around the Sotavento Experimental Wind Farm and will enter a draw for a surprise giveaway.

Below are the links to download the maps of the 5 routes for free. Remember that they can also be downloaded with the QR codes on the board that you will find outside the main building.

 

Map Sotavento                                                                                                                                                     

Route 1: Easy Short

 

Map Serrón do Lobo                                                                                                                                          

Route 2: Easy Short

Route 3: Easy Long

Route 4: Medium Short

Route 5: Medium Long

 

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