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The Esgueva valley

Bahabón de Esgueva, Arlanza, Burgos

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The Esgueva valley

Nature · Bahabón de Esgueva, Arlanza, Burgos

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The Esgueva rises in this land, on the eastern edge of the region, and opens a narrow valley westward, with a flat bottom and páramo slopes, sown with cereal and lined with poplars along its course; it crosses Bahabón de Esgueva from east to west, with the so-called Monte de Bahabón to the south giving way to the Duero valley. The municipality, at 923 metres above sea level, belongs to the Esgueva valley sub-region, within the Ribera del Duero of Burgos, which also extends into the provinces of Palencia and Valladolid; several villages in this stretch of Burgos province are covered by the Ribera del Duero designation of origin, and the area preserves a distinctive Romanesque style known as the Esgueva School, whose most representative example is the church of Pinillos de Esgueva.

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