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Chozo Quemaculos

Ávila · Espagne0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Chozo Quemaculos in the Sierra de Gredos, El Barco de Ávila/La Solana area (province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain), at 1581 m elevation, on the granite sierra's northern slope. A chozo (traditional dry-stone shepherd's hut with a conical broom-thatch roof) used during the summer grazing season by shepherds of the trashumancia (transhumance). Scots pine and Festuca indigesta grassland zone, habitat of the Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica victoriae).

The setting

Sierra de Gredos, El Barco de Ávila, Castile and León, 1581 m, granite, dry-stone broom-thatched chozo, transhumance, Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica victoriae.

What you'll find

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