Urkiola

The Urkiola Natural Park covers the highest terrain of the Aramotz Mountain Range, constituting a limestone barrier among the Bizkaia's regions of Arratia and Duranguesado, and the Alava's Aramaio Valley, separating at the same time the basins of the Cantabrian and Mediterranean rivers. The geographical position and the physiography of these mountains form an abrupt landscape dominated by rocky soils and highland pastures. The lower slopes and the bottom of these mountains accommodate pine tree, holm oak and pollarded beech tree groves.

It was declared a Natural Park on 29 December 1989 and on 27 March of that year, was declared the conservation of natural areas and wildlife, with the aim of protecting the natural values and landscape by making them compatible with the agricultural, livestock and forestry traditional place.

A beautiful result with very nice lighting, Guillermo!

 

Hola Guillermo. Atraído por estas bonitas luces de Urkiola he vuelto a su página. Aunque hace más de un año que lo preguntabas (tengo que reclclarme...) he de darte las gracias por tu comentario (ya ni te acordarás) y decirte que se trataba de la iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rivero, en San Esteban de Gormaz (Soria). Que vivamos los dos en Getxo y aun no nos conozcamos..... Un abrzo. Nacho.