Tierra de Campos

Tierra de Campos
Tierra de Campos
—  Comarca  —
Cultivated fields in northern Valladolid Province. Tierra de Campos means "Land of Fields"
Country  Spain
Autonomous community Castile and León
Province León, Zamora, Valladolid and Palencia
Capital Palencia (unofficial)
Municipalities
List
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Elevation 740 m (2,428 ft)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Largest municipality Palencia
Map of Tierra de Campos as it appears in the book "La Tierra de Campos: Región Natural", by Justo González Garrido
Location of present-day administrative areas under the name 'Tierra de Campos' in Castile and León
Characteristic Tierra de Campos landscape near Abastas.

Tierra de Campos is a large historical region or greater comarca that straddles the provinces of León, Zamora, Valladolid and Palencia, in Castile and León, Spain. It is a vast, desolate plain with practically no relief, except for some wide undulations of the terrain.

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Geography

Traditional dovecote in Tierra de Campos

Located on a fertile, elevated plateau with an average height of around 720 m, its geography is typical of the Meseta Central. The ground is mostly made up of quite compact clay. The climate is continental with long, cold winters and short, hot summers. Rivers naturally irrigating the area are sparse and traditionally the land in Tierra de Campos has been used for dryland farming. The Channel of Castile, built between the 18th and the 19th century to alleviate the chronic lack of water in this area, cuts across this comarca.

There are few natural forested areas left, but some of the wetlands in Tierra de Campos are important for the ecology of the region[1], like the Laguna de la Nava de Fuentes and the Lagunas de Villafáfila. The Tierra de Campos is the place with the highest concentration of bustard in the Iberian Peninsula, and possibly in the world.[2]

Despite of the strong identity of its inhabitants, this historical region has not been able to achieve the necessary legal recognition for its administrative development. Therefore its municipalities have resorted to organizing themselves in a mancomunidad[3], the only legal formula that has allowed the region to manage its public municipal resources meaningfully. Palencia is widely considered to be the capital of the Tierra de Campos.

There is no unanimous agreement regarding the precise boundaries of the Tierra de Campos. Since it is a natural and traditional region, no official limits have ever been assigned. One of the most widely accepted system of boundaries[4] has been the following:

Municipalities

León Province

Zamora Province

Valladolid Province

Palencia Province

Maps of Tierra de Campos areas in different provinces

  • Tierra de Campos Zamorana

  • Tierra de Campos in Palencia

  • Tierra de Campos of Valladolid; in purple

  • Tierra de Campos Leonesa; in brown.

See also

References

  1. ^ La Tierra de Campos, Patrimonio Natural
  2. ^ Proyecto Avutarda - Bustard Project
  3. ^ Mancomunidad de Tierra de Campos
  4. ^ Justo González Garrido, Tierra de Campos. Región Natural, 1941.

External links

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