Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Three new natural monuments in Andalusia

From the Network of Natural Spaces of Andalusia there has come to us information about three new natural monuments. We enclose it to you next:
The Council of Andalusian Government has approved the declaration of the monumentosnaturales of Ambrosio's Cave, in Vélez-Blanco; the Cap of Gossan, in Nerva; and the Forest of the Bañizuela, in Torredelcampo. Ambrosio's Cave, he has declared himself for his character ecocultural. It is a delimited surface of 114.967 square meters of cavities kársticas opened on a shelf hundred meters high in the head of the creek of the Mulberry tree. it lodges one of the principal paleolithic deposits of the Iberian Peninsula, with declared declarations of rock art Patrimony of the Humanity and the same way protected by the autonomic cultural legislation with the category of archaeological area.
The Cap of Gossan, placed inside the Protected Scenery Stained Rio, is an enclave that he emphasizes for his geologic singularity and for his didactic value to understand the deposits of typical sulfides of this from Huelva region. Partially protégée as Good of Cultural Interest inside the Historical Place of the Mining Area of Riotinto-Huelva, it is a question of a geologic formation of gossan (rock formed by oxides and hydroxides of iron) and you wash gossanizadas proceeding from the meteorización of next deposits. For his declaration as natural monument a 9.329 square meters surface has been delimited.
The Forest of the Bañizuela, protected by his special biological singularity and social evaluation, receives in his little more than two hectares a finished representation of the Mediterranean forest ecosystem esclerófilo of holm oaks and cork oaks.

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