Arribes del Duero. Granite walls from the bottom of the canyon #9
by RicardMN Photography
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Arribes del Duero. Granite walls from the bottom of the canyon #9
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RicardMN Photography
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Arribes del Duero Natural Park is a protected area in western Spain, covering 106.105 ha in the autonomous community of Castile and León. In this area the river Duero forms the national boundary between Spain and Portugal, and the Portuguese side is also protected under the Douro International Natural Park. The most notable characteristics of this natural space are its biodiversity and range of watercourses, which have eroded deep valleys and vertiginous precipices. This landscape is known as Arribes, which is where the reserve name comes from.
The deep cleft opened by the boxing of the Duero and its tributaries softens the thermal regime to the point of allowing the development of unusual thermophilic vegetation and typically Mediterranean crops on terraces, since the Duero gorge behaves like a heat condenser. In such a way that, while climatic conditions characterized by long and very cold winters and short and moderately warm summers prevail in the peneplain, the fluvial broom represents an island of heat that results in short and mild winters and long and mild summers. hot. In addition to the plant diversity, the steepest slopes have become an ideal place for the refuge of wild fauna, especially for birds. (Description from Wikipedia)
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November 16th, 2021
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