A number or rare animals live in the area, including otter, many bats, black-throated loon and peregrine falcon.

[4] There is evidence of human presence from 6000 years ago in form of ceramic findings.

[3] In 10th century bishop of Iria Flavia ordered a castle to be built on slopes of the mountain to protect the area from attacks from the sea.

[5] The particular geomorphology of Mount Pindo, full of reliefs in granite bowls, inspired many stories and legends of deities, carvings, or mythical monsters and giants, including some on the river Xallas, because the waterfall Ézaro fall by its waters directly on the salt water of the sea.

In the tenth century Sisnando (bishop of Iria Flavia) ordered the construction of the Castle of St. George on the shores of the mountain as protection against pirate attacks medieval.

In this environment would be other two castles, but one that does not retain material remains determinants or documentation parsable more than a Latin inscription on a stone isolated: Kings, bishops, priests, by all powers received from God, this castle here excomungaron This inscription refers to excommunication that in 1130 launched the archbishop Gelmírez against Earl Lock, to have prisoner in his castle to the Archdeacon of Castile.

The lush nature connects the place to fertility, which has encouraged pilgrimage of couples wishing to get more children.

[11] Queen Lupa is said to be buried at the Castle of Saint George, on Mount Pindo.

[12][13] There are numerous legends about this mountain, which some romantic Galician historians considered the Celtic Olympus.

Since Galicia has always been considered a land occupied by the ancestors of the local inhabitants over countless generations, without massive immigration of outsiders, a large number of Galician place-names should reflect similar descriptive toponyms.