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Chestnut grove of Rozavales

Manzaneda, Terra de Trives, Ourense

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Chestnut grove of Rozavales

Nature · Manzaneda, Terra de Trives, Ourense

A wood of grafted chestnut trees worked for centuries for the chestnut harvest, where the Pumbariños specimen grows, considered one of the oldest living trees known in Galicia. Located in the parish of San Martiño de Manzaneda, it covers an area of around 1.8 hectares and was declared a natural monument in 2000 and included in the catalogue of singular trees in 2007. The Pumbariños chestnut, of the species Castanea sativa, has a girth of more than thirteen metres, a crown twenty metres in diameter and main branches of between six and eight metres; it is estimated to be around 500 years old. The souto forms part of the Ourense Oriental tourist route run by the Xunta de Galicia.

Photo: Estevoaei (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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