Cingles de Tavertet (cliffs).
The cliffs of Tavertet part of the region's natural Collsacabra 142 km2 belonging mainly to the region's filmed, but also includes part of the neighboring counties of Garrotxa and Selva. Geomorphologically serrelades Prelitoral located between the Catalan and Transversal is a plateau formed by a structural platform with cliffs in the South and East, an average altitude of 1100 mts., Geologically formed by sedimentary materials, especially banks and Eocene sandstones. Indeed, the limestone cliffs of Tavertet form a neutral territory between the Guilleries Collsacabra. The name comes from the jurisdictional Collsacabra Castle Cabrera, called goats. In principle, the name topographic Collsacabra applied only to the eastern part from the formerly Sacabra neck, which pasava the road from Vic to Olot. Limestone Nummulitic Tavertet is called Girona stone, with singular buildings that have been built as the Cathedral of Girona. This stone is one of the most characteristic biofàcies Eocene seas located in the old sector of Mesozoic ocean Thetys. In no other place in March of this ancient Eocene outcrops so much this colorful limestone Nummulitic. In the formation of Tavertet there are karst systems, which, although not exceptional, are important and allow us to understand how sorgències stream of bullets.
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Location: Tavertet; Osona; Barcelona; Catalonia; Spain.
Photo credit: © Jordi Sans Galitó / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: barcelona, catalonia, cliff, collsacabra, landscape, natural, nature, osona, overview, spain, tavertet, tourism, travel
