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The Sabinar Nature Reserve of Calatañazor

Calatañazor, Tierras del Burgo, Soria

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The Sabinar Nature Reserve of Calatañazor

Nature · Calatañazor, Tierras del Burgo, Soria

A nature reserve declared on 11 July 2000, protecting 30 hectares —22 of them of juniper woodland— in the municipal area of Calatañazor, south of the Sierra de Cabrejas (Soria), next to the Fuentona Natural Monument, with which it shares a visitor centre. It is home to some of the oldest specimens of Spanish juniper, a resinous evergreen tree known locally as enebro, which usually reaches 14 metres in height; the junipers of Calatañazor, by contrast, reach up to 20 metres in height and 8 in trunk diameter, thanks to the land having traditionally been used as pastureland (dehesa), which has kept scrub from taking hold. Its wood, very hard, gives off an incense-like smell when burnt, which gave the species its scientific name, thurifera.

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