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Refugio Los Brezos

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Refugio El Brezo

The place

Refugio Los Brezos (Heather Refuge) in the Sierra de Gredos, El Barco de Ávila/Candelario area (province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain), at 1376 m elevation, on the northern slope of this granite sierra. Continuous Gredos cluster (batches 238+258+260). An unstaffed refugio used for transhumance (transhumancia). Located in a zone of Scots pines, heather (brezos) and Festuca indigesta grasslands, habitat of the Iberian ibex.

The setting

Sierra de Gredos, Barco/Candelario, Ávila, 1376 m, granite, continuous cluster batches 238-260, Castilian transhumance, heather (brezos), Iberian ibex.