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The lagoons of the Sierra Segundera

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The lagoons of the Sierra Segundera

Nature · Porto, Sanabria, Zamora

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The Sierra Segundera, in the León mountains of the Galician-Leonese massif, preserves the largest group of glacial lakes in Spain after the Pyrenees, together with one of the best-preserved groups of peat bogs on the peninsula, a legacy of the ice field that covered these mountains during the Quaternary glaciations. It marks the boundary between the Sil and Esla basins and gathers peaks over 2,000 metres, such as Peña Trevinca and Moncalvo. The district holds a string of lakes — Los Cancelos, the Lagoas de Verea and de Piatorta, the one at Lacillo at 1,695 metres, and the one at los Peces — amid oak groves, birches, willows, hollies and yews, in a landscape of harsh, snowy winters and short summers, home to roe deer, wild boar, otter, badger, polecat and wolf.

Photo: Estevoaei (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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