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Allariz Area Biosphere Reserve

Allariz, Allariz - Maceda, Ourense

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Allariz Area Biosphere Reserve

Nature · Allariz, Allariz - Maceda, Ourense

Declared by Unesco on 25 June 2005, the reserve covers the concellos of Allariz, A Bola, Vilar de Santos and Rairiz de Veiga, with an area of 21,482 hectares and a population of under 10,000 inhabitants. It consists of a broad depression, with an average altitude of 600 metres, through which flows the river Limia, surrounded by a mountainous rim from which the granite massif of Allariz stands out to the north, hemmed in by the river Arnoia; the altitude ranges between 425 and 927 metres. It has great biogeographical importance as a border territory between the Mediterranean and Eurosiberian worlds, with deciduous forest, a mosaic of meadows and the Lagoa de Antela as a notable wetland; its fauna includes the wolf, the otter and significant populations of waterfowl.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0)

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