Cabaña de Barcena
The place
Cabaña de Barcena in the Montaña Palentina comarca, Cervera de Pisuerga/Fuentes Carrionas sector (Palencia, Castile and León, Spain), at 1383 m altitude, in the Fuentes Carrionas y Fuente Cobre-Montaña Palentina sector (natural park established 1994). Part of a continuous Cantabrian Spain cluster (batches 210-330). A vaqueira cabaña ("Barcena" means peat meadow/valley in Cantabrian), in an area of beech-oak woodland (hayedos-robledal) home to Ursus arctos cantabricus (30-40 individuals on the southern slope, a Cantabrian brown bear subpopulation isolated from the Asturian slope's 200-250, critical fragmentation), and heritage of the vaqueiros de alzada (transhumant Asturian/Palencia herders, a long-discriminated minority).
The setting
Palencia, Cervera de Pisuerga/Fuentes Carrionas, Cantabrian Spain, 1383 m, natural park est. 1994, continuous cluster batches 210-330, vaqueira cabaña Barcena peat meadow, beech-oak woodland, Ursus arctos cantabricus 30-40 southern slope isolated from Asturian 200-250 fragmentation, vaqueiros de alzada transhumant discriminated minority.
