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The Teso Santo wind farm

Santiz, Tierra de Ledesma, Salamanca

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The Teso Santo wind farm

Curiosity · Santiz, Tierra de Ledesma, Salamanca

Image of Santiz, not of the place itself.

Twenty-five wind turbines of two megawatts each, on 78-metre steel tronco-conical towers, add up to fifty megawatts on the heights of the Teso Santo, a hill of about 984 metres that marks the boundary between the provinces of Zamora and Salamanca and whose administrative summit belongs to the municipality of Peñausende. While the Zamoran slope was reforested in the mid-20th century with Scots pine, the Salamancan slope, which separates the comarca of Sayago from the Tierra de Ledesma, to which Santiz belongs, kept its original ecosystem until land consolidation and the wind farm itself transformed it in recent decades. It is the same hill where pre-Roman remains from the 6th century BC were found, beside the old Roman road of Ledesma.

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