natural wonders of Iberia

[Tietar]

only breathtaking or singular places, I start with one of my favorites, a canyon in the pyrenees

Ordesa National Park

[Pedro Ruben]

Parque Natural do Douro Internacional (Arribas do Douro/ Arribes del Duero)

Douro International Natural Park. In the northeast of Portugal, in the Trás-os-Montes region, the River Douro marks the border with Spain.

[Tietar]

Rio tinto (tinted river)



the color was believed to be due to mining activity, but an investigation has concluded that it is due to a natural underground reactor, in any case it is a unique ecosystem in the world and currently protected landscape, located in Huelva (Andalusia)

quote from wikipedia:

"This river has gained recent scientific interest due to the presence of extremophile anaerobic bacteria that dwell in the acidic water. The subsurface rocks on the river bed contain iron and sulfide minerals on which the bacteria feed. The extreme conditions in the river may be analogous to other locations in the Solar System thought to contain liquid water, such as groundwater on Mars. Scientists have also directly compared the chemistry of the water in which the Mars rocks of Meridiani Planum were deposited in the past with the Río Tinto. Likewise, the moons Europa and Enceladus contain an acidic ocean of water underneath their ice surface, thus the Rio Tinto river is of interest to astrobiologists studying the environmental limits of life and planetary habitability."

[Celestia]

beautiful!

[Tietar]

Arribes del Duero deserves better photos

[Tietar]

Moncayo range, The sacred mountain of the celtiberians








a frame from the movie Doctor Zhivago (filmed in Spain), pretending to be Siberia and Urals

[gixajo]

cascada de Gujuli, (Urkabustaiz, Álava, Basque Country, Spain)







https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiuri-Gujuli

[Tietar]

another waterfall between the Basque country and Castile, Jump of the Nervion

[Tietar]

Natural monument of the lagoons of Cañada del Hoyo (Cuenca)



a group of 7 permanent lagoons with different colors caused by microorganisms that change with the seasons. Last year one of them turned pink

[Tietar]

Algarve coast (southern portugal)