A locality in the municipality of Lubián, in the Galician-speaking area of Zamora, with its port or portilla – portela in Galician. Padornelo seems to be based on padrón, a variant of pedrón, perhaps influenced by padre, whose motivation must be ‘delimiting stone, cairn, milestone, milestone, menhir’, and in some cases ‘outstanding natural rock’. There is also a Padornelos in Portugal, near Montalegre, opposite Baltar in the province of Orense.