Urdaibai Biosferaren Erreserba
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Estuary in Spain
The Urdaibai estuary is a natural region and a Biosphere Reserve of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain. It is also referred as Mundaka or Gernika estuary.
Urdaibai is located on the Bay of Biscay coast, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula.
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The Urdaibai estuary is a natural region and a Biosphere Reserve of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain. It is also referred as Mundaka or Gernika estuary.
At its heart is the river Oka, born on Monte Oiz and which flows out into an estuary at Mundaka, creating some spectacular wetlands that teem with life. We ...
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The Urdaibai Estuary is one of the most richly diverse natural landscapes in the Basque Country. Low altitude mountains with steep slopes give way to a valley ...
Urdaibai – from Basque ur, water, and ibai, river, is the 230km2 natural area around the estuary of the river Oka. It was designated as a UNESCO Biosphere ...
The estuaries of Bilbao (43 23 N 3 W) and Urdaibai (43 22 N, 2 43 W) are two shallow meso-macrotidal systems located on the Basque coast (Bay of Biscay), at ...
The Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve, as it was declared by UNESCO in 1984, extends over an area of 23000 hectares of 22 municipalities in the Busturialdea.
The river doesn't only form marshland at its estuary, visited by thousands of migratory birds every year, but also Cantabrian holm-oak woods and oak groves, ...
The Urdaibai estuary, declared a biosphere reserve, is a trail full of life formed by the mouth of the Oka River. With the change of the tides offers unique ...
It comprises a large marsh formed by the river Oca as it flows into the sea, thereby providing a rich source of food for a large variety of seabirds.
Sculpted by the sea, the wind and the rivers, the spectacular and full of wildlife landscapes in Urdaibai have been the home of humans for millennia.