Calblanque Regional Park

Calblanque Regional Park, Monte de las Cenizas y Peña del Águila is a regional park in the south-east of Spain, and in this country in the autonomous community Región de Murcia. In this region, it is located in the municipalities Cartagena and La Unión. It is part of Sierra Minera, a mountain chain in the Baetic System.

It is one of the best preserved areas in the Mediterranean littoral in spite of human activities and interaccions. The two last facts brings this area a cultural value.

In regards of its geology, there are two kinds of lithology: metamorphic rocks and Quaternary sediments. Overall, there are the most ancient rocks in The Region of Murcia and the most recent ones, which are altered by sundry erosion processes. These phenomenons turn into the existence of beaches, risks, natural arcs, tafoni, etc.[1]

Arco de los Reyes, a natural arch located within Calblanque Regional Park.

There is a large diversity of ecosystems: forest spots, sandy areas, etc.

Fauna

There are birds like little egrets, stilts, avocets, kentish plovers, audoin's gulls, peregrine falcons, Eurasian eagle-owls, Bonelli's eagles, badgers, beech martens, also fish like Spanish toothcarps and reptiles like chalcides bedriagai (Bedriaga's skinks), malpolon monspessulanus (Montpellier snakes) and ocellated lizards and finally animals of other Phyli like crinoids.[2]

Flora

There are plants like cistus heterophyllus (more or less close to hoary rockrose and to goldenheathers), asparagus macrorrhizus (more or less close to blue funnel-lilies), lotus creticus, sea hollies and pallenis maritimae (more or less close to common cudweeds).[2]

Spots and places
Cala de los déntoles, a small cove on the eastern part of calblanque.

In this list there are the most important places and spots:[3]

  • Cala de los Déntoles (also locally known as Cala Dorada)
  • Peña del águila (hill)
  • Cala Arturo
  • Cala del Barco
  • Cabezo de la Fuente
  • Cabezo del Horno
  • Cala Magre
  • Negrete Beach
  • Las Cañas Beach
  • Parreño Beach
  • Punta Negra
  • Punta Espada

References
  1. "Calblanque (Cartagena) - Región de Murcia Digital".
  2. "Calblanque, Monte de las Cenizas y Peña del Águila : Web oficial turismo Región de Murcia".
  3. "Parque Regional Calblanque" [Calblanque Regional Park] (in Spanish). Archived from the original (pdf) on 15 May 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019.

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