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| The Grandma visits the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat |
Today, The Grandma has spent her last day in Gavà. It has been a wonderful experience. Gavà is a beautiful place surrounded by amazing sites, a city full of ancient history that lives its present, working very hard for its future but without forgetting its past.
It is very difficult to choose only one place but, a city is the result of a mix between its history and its people and Gavà citizens are unforgettable ones.
The Grandma also wants to check how many expenses she has got during these days and she has decided to use a finantial software to control her money, her purchases and her investments.
The Grandma has bought a quiet parcel in the middle of the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat to grow her own vegetables and fruits.
After closing this business, The Grandma has also visited the beaches of Gavà with Claire Fontaine and Joseph de Ca'th Lon. These beaches are a wonderful place where they have seen natural dunes, something almost in extinction in the Mediterranean coasts.
More information: FactuSol & FacturaSoft
El Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat or the Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park is part of the Network of Protected Natural Areas, promoted and managed by the Diputació de Barcelona.
The Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat is located in the alluvial plains of the delta and the lower valley of the Llobregat river, in the Baix Llobregat region, which occupy a central position in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
The territory of the park, of traditional agricultural wealth, is part of fourteen municipalities: Castelldefels, Cornellà de Llobregat, Gavà, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Molins de Rei, Pallejà, Papiol, El Prat de Llobregat, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Sant Joan Despí, Sant Vicenç dels Horts, Santa Coloma de Cervelló and Viladecans, which add up to 730,000 inhabitants of more than 4 million of the metropolitan region. The Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat has an area of 2,938 hectares, delimited by its Special Plan.
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| Joseph de Ca'th Lon contemplates the Parc Agrari |
The low valley of the Llobregat is a fluvial plain oriented in the direction of N-NW/S-SE, with the Llobregat river that divides the mountain ranges located parallel to the coast line, until forming an opening delta.
There is a predominance of winds along the valley and during the winter the cold winds of the north penetrate following the direction of the valley. The marinade causes, during the summer, winds of the SSW in the delta and valley above become the S or SSE. At night they calm down or blow up northern terrain, low, near the delta. At the same time the S-SE exhibition allows you to receive a high irradiation, which contributes to a privileged average temperature.
There is a predominance of winds along the valley and during the winter the cold winds of the north penetrate following the direction of the valley. The marinade causes, during the summer, winds of the SSW in the delta and valley above become the S or SSE. At night they calm down or blow up northern terrain, low, near the delta. At the same time the S-SE exhibition allows you to receive a high irradiation, which contributes to a privileged average temperature.
The thermometric data
have an average temperature of 15.6° with extreme mean values for the
absolute peaks, which are located at 32.2° and for the absolute lowest
in -2,1° of the minimum. The average temperature presents the typical
Mediterranean distribution, minimum winter and summer maximum.
The
joint action of the regulatory influence of the sea, the physical
protection of the mountain ridge and the exposure to the ESS ensure
climate friendliness with mild winters and prolongs the warm season
until the two months of autumn (September- October).
The average annual rainfall is 583 mm. With regard to maximum rainfall, they occur during the months of September and October (autumn) and the minimum ones, during the months of June and July (summer). Precipitations are exceptional in the area of the delta and the low valley.
These climatic conditions are very suitable for crops that grow mainly in the delta and the low valley: orchard and fruit trees in the open air and protected crops.
The Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat presents a significant interest in the diversity of natural environments that originate from an original landscape made up of vegetal communities typical of the coastal sands, considerable extensions of coastal wetlands and riverside forests; landscape that has been, however, deeply transformed by the action of man.
Thus, in terms of
primitive vegetation, five domains can be distinguished: holm oak,
lichen and palm butter, deciduous forests, coastal halophile and
helophytes communities and coastal psammophile communities. These last
two groups correspond to wet saline environments and to the coastal sands of the delta.
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| Claire Fontaine visits the dunes in Gavà beaches |
From this potential vegetation, different environments have been set up that make up the current landscape: the fields of cultivation, coastal wetlands, the river and the drainage network, beaches or pine forests.
In fact, we can group the vegetal landscape of the territory of the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat in two main types: the vegetal communities associated with the agricultural area and the communities associated to the flood areas and the coastal lagoons.
However, the particular ecological conditions of some areas and, in particular, the extensive network of irrigation and drainage channels, facilitates the appearance of particular communities and sometimes allows the survival of some species of singular plants.
In this sense, the Llobregat Delta has remarkable botanical and zoological singularities, closely linked to wetlands, which include remarkable species, endangered or bounded by their geographical area of distribution and the existence of important concentrations of individuals breeding, wintering and migratory of many ornithological species.
More information: The Most Ancient Dunes in the 'Delta del Llobregat'
The predominant agricultural landscape maintains some practically testimonial elements of the ancient delta lagoons. These natural spaces today have been modified in part by the enlargement works of the port of Barcelona, the airport and the same diversion of the river.
The landscape of the Llobregat delta in a few years will change radically as it was in the late twentieth century. However, while this radical transformation affects the landscape essence of the lower valley, efforts are also made to conserve and recover the remaining relictual natural spaces.
The agricultural landscape is the guarantee that this immense plain does not become an urban sprawl stuck in Barcelona. At the same time, however, this sea of crops is also a food reserve, a real pantry next to a metropolis that hosts 60% of the Catalan population.
The fresh food produced in the Baix Llobregat is one of the main values of a landscape still not sufficiently valued by the privileged population that surrounds it.
More information: IEC (Catalan Version)
Our farmers feed the world.
They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset.
They face any number of challenges they can't control,
from too much rain to not enough, from disease to insect infestations.
Luther Strange
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