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Paraje, a Spanish term meaning in English place or spot. [1] Paraje is a term from the original Spanish speaking settlers, in use among English speakers in the southwestern United States, particularly in New Mexico, that refers to a camping place along a long distance trail where travelers customarily stopped for the night.
El Surar (in Spanish, El Paraje Natural Municipal de El Surar [2]) is a Municipal Natural Park located in the east of Spain, within the comarca of Vall d'Albaida in the autonomous community of Valencia; it is shared between the municipalities of Pinet and Llutxent. El Surar is the southernmost cork oak forest in Valencia. It consists of a ...
Spanish ibex, Torcal de Antequera. El Torcal supports an impressive array of wildflowers including rock-dwellers [2] such as Linaria anticaria, Saxifraga biternata, Linaria oblongifolia, Viola demetria, Saxifraga reuterana, Polypodium australe, and other plants like lilies, red peonies, wild rose trees and thirty varieties of orchid.
[3]: 29–30 [4]: 105 Between 1867 and 1910, Paraje had its own post office. [5] The population began to decline after the 1910s after the development of the plan to build a dam down river. By the end of the 1920s, Paraje became a ghost town. In 1942, the site was first submerged by the Elephant Butte Reservoir. Later exposed by the retreat of ...
Sunrise on the Albufera lagoon. The Albufera lagoon, in a satellite image. Vegetation of the Parque Natural de la Albufera.. The Albufera de València (Valencian: [albuˈfeɾa ðe vaˈlensia], meaning "lagoon of Valencia" in Valencian, from Arabic البحيرة al-buhayra, "small sea"), is a freshwater lagoon and estuary on the Gulf of Valencia coast of the Valencian Community in eastern Spain.
One of these is the Despeñaperros river, but the Guarrizas also crosses 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) to the east, forming the beautiful Cimbarra Falls, protected as a paraje natural. The Despeñaperros flows into the Guarrizas about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of the gorge.
The Albufera Natural Park (in Valencian Parc Natural de l'Albufera) or simply La Albufera (from the Arabic البحيرة al-Buḥayra, "the lake") is a Spanish protected natural area located in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community.
Chiva is a municipality in the comarca of Hoya de Buñol in the Valencian Community, Spain.It has a population of 16,750 inhabitants (INE 2023). It is a Spanish-speaking town, in which Spanish has the legally recognised linguistic predominance compared to Valencian, co-official regional language of the Valencian Community.