What is the only national park located in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain, Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park or Picos de Europa National Park?
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Picos de Europa National Park The Picos de Europa National Park (Spanish: "Parque Nacional de Picos de Europa" ) is a National Park in the Picos de Europa mountain range, in northern Spain. It is within the boundaries of three autonomous communities, Asturias, Cantabria and Castile and León, which are represented on the body which runs the park.
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Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park The Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park (Galician: "Parque Nacional das Illas Atlánticas de Galicia" , Spanish: "Parque Nacional de las Islas Atlánticas de Galicia" ) is the only national park located in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It comprises the archipelagos of Cíes, Ons, Sálvora and Cortegada. The park covers a land area of 1200 ha and a sea area of 7200 ha . It is the tenth most visited national park in Spain. It was the thirteenth national park to be established in Spain.
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A Illa de Arousa A Illa de Arousa is the only island municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra. It is located in the heart of the Ria de Arousa. According to 2011 INE the island's population was 5,020 inhabitants. The population is divided into several neighborhoods, and places of interest are the lighthouse's environment, the island of Areoso (close to the Illa de Arousa) and Carreirón Natural Park, which is listed as a special protection zone for heron birds populations among other birds that inhabit the island. The Holy viewpoint is the highest point on the island.
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Peninsular Spain Peninsular Spain refers to that part of Spanish territory located within the Iberian peninsula, thus excluding other parts of Spain: the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, and a number of islets and crags off the coast of Morocco known collectively as "plazas de soberanía" (places of sovereignty). In Spain it is mostly known simply as "the Peninsula". It has land frontiers with France and Andorra to the north; Portugal to the west; and the British territory of Gibraltar to the south.
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Terceira Island Terceira (] ) is an island in the Azores archipelago, in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the larger islands of the archipelago, with a population of 56,000 inhabitants in an area of approximately 396.75 km² . It is the location of the Azores' oldest city, Angra do Heroísmo, the historical capital of the archipelago and UNESCO World Heritage Site; the seat of the judicial system (Supreme Court); and the main base of the Azores Air Zone Command (Portuguese: "Comando da Zona Aérea dos Açores" ), Base Aérea nº 4, and a United States Air Force detachment.
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Serra da Estrela Serra da Estrela (] , "Star Mountain Range") is the highest mountain range in Continental Portugal. Together with the Serra da Lousã it is the westernmost constituent range of the Sistema Central and also one of the highest in the system. It includes mainland Portugal's highest point at 1993 m above mean sea level (although the summit of Mount Pico in the Portuguese Azores islands is higher). This point is not a distinctive mountain summit, but rather the highest point in a plateau, being known as Torre ("Tower" in English). Torre is an unusual summit in that it is accessible by a paved road. The peak has a topographic prominence of 1204 m and its parent peak is Pico Almanzor, in Spain.
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Amazônia National Park The Amazônia National Park (Portuguese: "Parque Nacional da Amazônia" ) was created in 1974, as a national park comprising 1,070,737 ha. It is situated in Itaituba and Trairão municipalities, Pará state, in the north region of Brazil. It is located in the watershed of the Tapajós River, about halfway between Manaus and Belém. It has expanded since its inception and now covers 8600 km2 . It is a very biodiverse habitat and contains a wide range of animals and plants.
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Parque Nacional Del Este The Parque Nacional Del Este (or National Park of the East) is located in eastern Dominican Republic. Founded on September 16, 1975, the park consists of 31,244 Ha of open space on the southeastern peninsula of Hispaniola and 10,650 Ha on Isla Saona, a popular tourist destination, totalling 41,894 Ha in protected area. The protected area also includes a 12,000 Ha buffer zone around the park boundaries.
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Protected areas of the Azores The Protected Areas of the Azores (Portuguese: "Rede Regional de Áreas Protegidas" ) are the basic administrative-territorial and conservation structures in the archipelago of the Azores and the surrounding oceans. The areas integrate the entirety of the Azores within its Exclusive Economic Zone, as well as the surrounding waters, under the international agreements and conventions. The network realizes the categorization of management for protected areas adopted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), adapting it to the specific geographical, environmental, cultural and political-administrative territory of the archipelago.
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Tobes Tobes is one of eight parishes (administrative divisions) in Peñamellera Baja, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It is located in the Picos de Europa National Park.
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Couto Misto Couto Misto (Portuguese: "Couto Misto" ] , Galician: "Couto Mixto" , Spanish: "Coto Mixto" ) was an independent microstate on the border between Spain and Portugal. It was composed of the villages of Santiago de Rubiás, Rubiás (now in the Spanish municipality of Calvos de Randín), and Meaus (now in the Spanish municipality of Baltar), all in the Salas Valley, Ourense, Galicia. The territory of the Couto Misto also included a small uninhabited strip now part of the Portuguese municipality of Montalegre.
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Pontevedra Pontevedra (] , ] ) is a Spanish city in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the "Comarca" (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rias Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality which is, in fact, often considered as an extension of the actual city. Pontevedra is the provincial district court seat.
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Sistema Ibérico The Iberian System (Spanish: "Sistema Ibérico" , ] ), is one of the major systems of mountain ranges in Spain.
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Santiago de Compostela commonly known as Santiago ( , ] , ] ), is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.
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Archipelago National Park Archipelago National Park (Swedish: "Skärgårdshavets nationalpark" , Finnish: "Saaristomeren kansallispuisto" ) is a national park in Southwest Finland. It was established in 1983 and covers 500 km2 of land areas, a huge land area considering that the area mostly is outer archipelago with few islands even 1 km - and the big ones are inhabited and mostly privately owned and thus not part of the national park. The park's web pages give that number as non-qualified "area". It is part of the UNESCO biosphere reserves and received a PAN Parks certificate in 2007.
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La Palma La Palma (] ), also San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands, Spain. La Palma has an area of 706 km making it the fifth largest of the seven main Canary Islands. The total population is about 86,000, of which 18,000 (2003 data) live in the capital, Santa Cruz de la Palma and about 20,000 (2004 data) in Los Llanos de Aridane. La Palma has "sister city" status with El Dorado Hills, California. Its highest mountain is the Roque de los Muchachos, at 2,426 metres, being second among the peaks of the Canaries only to the peaks of the Teide massif on Tenerife.
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Lobos Island Lobos (Spanish: "Isla de Lobos" , ] ) is a small island of the Canary Islands (Spain) located just 2 km north of the island of Fuerteventura. Politically it belongs to the municipality of La Oliva on the island of Fuerteventura. It has an area of 4.68 km2 . It has been a nature reserve ("Parque Natural del Islote de Lobos") since 1982.
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Pilancones Pilancones Natural Park is located in San Bartolomé de Tirajana municipality on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain. Its area is 5794.4 ha. It adjoins Roque Nublo country park to the north, and Fataga protected area to the east. The park plays an important role in soil protection and the replenishment of an aquifer, along which there are several ravines running southward which are of geomorphological interest and landscape value. The pine forests on hilltops are a well-preserved habitat with abundant bird life. The park also harbours several varieties of cactus and spurge, and a number of aquatic habitats. The park takes its name from natural pools, formerly known locally as "pilancones", which remain after the runoff of water. Throughout the area there are threatened animal and plant species, and features of scientific interest.
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Sálvora Sálvora is a small island located on the Ría de Arousa, coast of Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the municipality of Santa Uxía de Ribeira and is integrated in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park. It is separated from the mainland by a distance of about 3 kilometers to the north. It occupies about 190 hectares and has a maximum height of 71 meters ("As Gralleiras"). Almost the entire perimeter of the island is rocky but has three beaches of fine white sand. Since 2001 it has been integrated into the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park.
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Mediterranean Technology Park The Mediterranean Technology Park (PMT) is a science and technology park located in Castelldefels, a town in the Baix Llobregat county, in Catalonia, 10 minutes from the airport and 20 minutes from the centre of Barcelona.
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Omora Ethnobotanical Park Omora Ethnobotanical Park is a protected area of Chile located 4 km west of Puerto Williams on Navarino Island in the extreme southern Magellan and Chilean Antarctica Region. The Omora Park is a research, education and conservation center for the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. The park itself includes a representative variety subantarctic flora open to the public for formal and information education. Within its boundaries, one can find deciduous forests ("Nothofagus antarctica" and "Nothofagus pumilio") and evergreen broadleaf forests ("Nothofagus betuloides"), as well as bogs and high-Andean ecosystems and diverse mosses, lichens and liverworts (termed the "Miniature Forests of Cape Horn" by Omora Park scientists).
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Verraco The verracos (English: "boar") (Spanish: "verraco" ; Portuguese: "berrão" ), in the Iberian Peninsula, are the Vettones's granite megalithic monuments, sculptures of animals as found in the west of the Iberian "meseta" - the high central plain of the Iberian peninsula - in the Spanish provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, Segovia, Salamanca, Zamora, and Cáceres, but also in the north of Portugal and Galicia. Over 400 "verracos" have been identified.