Ibones of the Pyrenees. Natural areas in Aragon. mountains, rivers, landscapes, protected areas, stone. Nature of Aragon.

Ibones of the Pyrenees. Natural areas in Aragon. mountains, rivers, landscapes, protected areas, stone. Aragon.

Nature of Aragon in English

In Aragon, Ibon is the name by which lakes of glacial origin are called, which occupy small oval or circular basins that have been excavated by ancient glacial circuses.

Ibón is one of the most personal and beautiful finds that the walker can find along the valleys of the Pyrenees.

Image of the Pyrenees mountains
Pyrenees.

The formation of the ibons occurs in glacial circuses, where the almost vertical pressure of the glacier ice, before taking a more horizontal sense in the tongue, produces an erosion that excavates the bottom bucket, so that it, with the removal of the ice, it is filled with water forming the ibon. Such is the amount of ibons, which of the 406 Spanish lakes, in the sheets corresponding to Aragon of the national topographic map, can be counted up to 158.

 In the Aragonese Pyrenees there are three large areas of ibons, in the Panticosa, Posets and Maladeta massifs, the latter two corresponding to the "Ball de Benas". Among the ibons located around the Massif de la Maladeta, northeast of Benasque, are Villamuerta Alto and Baixo, Llosas, Ballibierna, Renclusa, Gorgutes, Alba, Collada de Toro, Barrancs, Escaleta, Carones and Cregüeña.

The northwestern part of the surrounding valley also collects numerous ibons: Batisielles, Barbarisa, Escarpinosa, Batisielles Alto, Alforches-Plan dels Ibons, Bagüeña, Perramo or Bardamina among others.



Also Aragon enjoys a diverse and varied Nature where passing by plants, animals, Geology, or landscapes we can arrive at a fantastic bestiary that lives in its monuments.

The information will not be complete without a stroll by its three provinces, with shutdown in some of its spectacular landscapes like Ordesa, the Moncayo, Monegros or by opposition the Ebro.

Also you can dedicarte to the intangible ones: from the legend compilation that also does to universal Aragon.



Fauna | Flora | Geology | Fungi | Water
Landscapes | Monegros | Moncayo | Ebro | Ordesa
Bestiary | Books | Buffon | Activities | Culturales | Zh2o | Photografies
Document | Nature in Aragon



The pasapues project is an extension of the Aragón project is like that, and tries to collect and relate all possible types of documentary information about Aragon: texts, books, articles, maps, illustrations, photographs, narrations, etc., and proceed to its publication and diffusion.

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