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Pego-Oliva wetland

Pego, La Marina Alta, Alicante

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Pego-Oliva wetland

Nature · Pego, La Marina Alta, Alicante

The Marjal de Pego-Oliva Natural Park protects a 1,255-hectare wetland divided between the municipalities of Pego, in the comarca of La Marina Alta, and Oliva, in La Safor, declared a natural park in 1994. It stretches between the Racons and Bullent rivers, next to a dune system south of the Serpis river, and combines marshland and rice fields crossed by a network of old irrigation channels. Its origin is due to the silting-up of an old bay, which first became a lagoon and then, gradually, the present-day marsh, a stretch of reed beds with numerous pools of clean water.

Photo: Espencat (Public domain)

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