Bardenas Reales

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The Bardenas Reales (in Basque: Errege Bardea) is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some 42,000 hectares (420 km2; 104,000 acres) in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk, and sandstone and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular structures, and isolated hills, called cabezos. Bardenas Reales lacks urban areas, vegetation is scarce and the many streams that cross the territory have a markedly seasonal flow, staying dry most of the year. The area has been a natural park since 1999 and a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2000. Since 1951 part of it has been used as an air weapons range by the Spanish Air Force.

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