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The Department of Environment and Urban Quality has released this morning the environmental pathways and routes organized to know that Murcia, enjoy and photograph the biodiversity of the municipality.
The first route, which took place today, is the Way of Arejos in Majal Blanco.
The Councillor for Environment and Urban Quality, Adela Martinez-Cacho, participated in the activity.
Participants tour the site of The Carrascas, with great diversity of shrubs typical of Mediterranean forests: palm, juniper, hawthorn, mastic and Kermes oak (leaves and fruit species like the oak).
This first installment is a magnificent view of the plain of Guadalentín and mountain ranges.
They have also been able to contemplate the very few copies relict cork oak (Quercus suber) that survive in the region.
Participants also tour the gorge of the Canyons, where you can see a beautiful geological folding.
This area gives way to pine forest where the pine forest dominates almost completely.
It is in this environment where its habitat the crossbill, a bird that feeds on pine nuts from the cones of pine and cypress, whose remains are at the base of the tree.
The tour comes to the valley, where water collects after poor rains, on a bed of impermeable red clay, forming a pond that is used by the boar to clean your skin, heal their wounds and parasites shed rolling in mud.
Later travels a path colonized by natural vegetation, which thrives steppes, perpetual and dawn.
Are seen hanging from the branches of pine trees, numerous gray-green lichens, which by appearance are known as' barbs Pilgrim. "
The path narrows through a dense pine forest floor covered by a carpet of lastone, the boar used as bedding to incarnate during the day.
In this area you can also see traces of animals like crossbills, squirrels, field mice, partridges and foxes.
Sangonera La Rambla is the eastern boundary of Municipal Park.
Along the promenade are the remains of an ancient mine of water called The Pizorra.
Here you can see the red soil, paleosol, which is so called because their formation occurred more than 5 million years, under climatic conditions different from today's warmer and wetter, and with greater seasonal contrasts.
The tour ends at the north side of The Cliffs, across valleys where you can see the mastic, juniper and black hawthorn.
Itineraries & Tours organized by the Department of Environment are:
February 14: PR Route MU-34 "Road of the Arejos."
February 28: PR Route MU-52 "Barranco Blanco."
March 7: PR Route MU-35 "Vulture Cave."
March 14: Route botanical "For the wetlands in the Region of Murcia."
April 18: Itinerary "Crossing the White Mahal."
May 9: Geological Map Places of geological interest of the Region of Murcia. "
To participate please register by calling 968 212518, or write to info@ecopatrimonio.es, or visit http://www.murcia.es/medio-ambiente/medio-ambiente.
Schedules and routes are free (for a day and travel by bus) cost 5 euros.
Participants in these activities may submit their best photographs to the Department of Environment to make a photo album dedicated to the International Year of Biodiversity.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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