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Entrepeñes and Vega beach

Ribadesella, Oriente, Asturias

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Entrepeñes and Vega beach

Nature · Ribadesella, Oriente, Asturias

A natural monument declared by Decree 142/2001, protecting some 37 hectares beside the village of Vega, in the concejo of Ribadesella: the sandy shore, its dune system, the Acebo stream and the Entrepeñes gorge. In the gorges paleontological sites have been found with dinosaur ichnites and traces of former sea levels; the plain where Vega sits was originally an estuary, now fossilised by sedimentation. Among its vegetation the endangered bastard chamomile and golden fly stand out, and among its fauna, the peregrine falcon in the gorge and cormorants and gulls on the beach, also listed as a Point of Geological Interest.

Photo: Herbythyme (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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