Arca do Rabós
DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE
Photo Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España · CC BY 2.0Source file on Wikimedia Commons
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
L'Arca do Rabós est un dolmen situé près du village de Rabós de la paroisse de Baíñas, dans la commune de Vimianzo, dans la province de La Corogne, en Galice, en Espagne.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
Arca do Rabós: the whole story
In briefSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
Arca do Rabós is a dolmen near the village of Rabós de Baíñas, in the municipality of Vimianzo, province of La Corogne, in Galice, Spain. It belongs to the Costa da Morte megalithic archaeological park. The monument is dated by typological estimate to 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE.
Part of the capping slab over the polygonal chamber survives, resting on two orthostats that lean inward. Only three orthostats remain from the corridor, which was oriented towards the east. The dolmen was originally covered by a large tumulus about 20 m in diameter, and traces of this mound are still visible on the north side of the structure.
The dolmen was declared a Bien de interés cultural in 2011 under the reference GA15092042. Its recorded protection reflects its standing as a protected cultural property in Galicia and its inclusion in the Costa da Morte megalithic park.
Dolmens of this kind in Spain vary widely in form and date. As the wider tradition notes, Spain has a great many megalithic tombs, with the country’s dolmens extending from Andalusia in the south to Galicia in the north-west. The sources give no specific legend or account of how Arca do Rabós was used.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Arca do Rabós", shown in the original language.
Summary in EnglishSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
Arca do Rabós is a dolmen in Baíñas, Vimianzo, Spain. Wikidata describes it as: dolmen in Vimianzo, Spain. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Arca do Rabós", shown in the original language.
DescriptionSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
L'Arca do Rabós a conservé une partie de la dalle de couverture de la chambre polygonale, soutenue par deux orthostates inclinés vers l'intérieur. Il ne reste du couloir orienté vers l'est que trois orthostates. Le dolmen était recouvert à l'origine par un grand tumulus d'environ 20 m de diamètre, dont on voit des vestiges sur le côté nord de l'édifice.
ProtectionSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
Le dolmen a été déclaré Bien d'intérêt culturel en 2011 sous la cote GA15092042. Il fait partie du Parc archéologique mégalithique de la Costa da Morte.
How this page was madeSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Arca do Rabós”, translated from French. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Dolmens of Andalusia, Extremadura and Galicia
Spain has a great many megalithic tombs, and the Atlas's Spanish dolmens run from Andalusia in the south to Galicia in the north-west. The finest are at Antequera in Andalusia, where the Dolmen of Menga, dated to about 3750 to 3650 BCE, is among the largest ancient megalithic structures in Europe. It is 27.5 metres long, 6 metres wide and 3.5 metres high, built with thirty-two megaliths, the largest weighing about 180 tonnes. After the chamber was finished it was covered with soil and built up into the hill seen today; when it was opened in the nineteenth century archaeologists found the skeletons of several hundred people. The Dolmen of Viera stands 70 metres away, and the tholos of El Romeral lies about 4 kilometres off; the three were inscribed as the Antequera Dolmens Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 2016.
In the south-west, the Dolmen de Soto at Trigueros in Huelva province is a Neolithic tomb estimated to date between 3000 and 2500 BCE, one of about 200 Neolithic burial sites in the province. It was found in 1922 when its owner, Armando de Soto Morillas, wanted to build a house; the German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier found eight bodies in a fetal position with artefacts, and its engraved and painted uprights have been studied more recently.
In Galicia and Portugal a dolmen is an anta, and in Catalan-speaking areas dolmens have folk names such as cova (cave), caixa (crate or coffin), taula (table) and arca (chest). These names are tradition: they record what people made of the monuments, not what they were built for.
When visiting Menga, look at the great capstones from inside the corridor, and at the way the mound was built up over the chamber.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Dolmen of Menga, Wikipedia: Dolmen of Viera, Wikipedia: Antequera Dolmens Site, Wikipedia: Dolmen de Soto, Wikipedia: Dolmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 2011
Le dolmen a été déclaré Bien d'intérêt culturel en 2011 sous la cote GA15092042. Il fait partie du Parc archéologique mégalithique de la Costa da Morte.
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Photographs
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 4000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in Spain; this site has not been dated itself. Most dolmens date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE); the Dolmen of Menga in Andalusia dates to about 3750-3650 BCE.Source for this date
Where it stands
Spain
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 43°02′16″ N, 9°01′13″ WFor a GPS or map app: 43.03769, -9.02033
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
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Casota de Freáns4000–3000 BCE
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Arquiña de Vilaseco4000–3000 BCE
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Sources
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- 01Wikidata Q31281019wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
Image files
- Arca de Rabós (29746000160).jpgÁngel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, EspañaCC BY 2.0
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Lore, kept apart
Legends and claims
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- Tradition
Dolmens of this kind in Spain vary widely in form and date.
Dolmens of this kind in Spain vary widely in form and date. As the wider tradition notes, Spain has a great many megalithic tombs, with the country’s dolmens extending from Andalusia in the south to Galicia in the north-west. The sources give no specific legend or account of how Arca do Rabós was used.
Source
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Text, licence and sources
Text from the Wikipedia article "Arca do Rabós" (French), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors
- Wikipedia (French): Arca do RabósCC BY-SA 4.0
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