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Domingo Rubio, Palos & Las Madres lagoons
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D. Rubio, Palos & Las Madres
In
Palos de la Frontera,
on 480 hectares around the mouth of the rivers Tinto and Odiel and the tidal marshes of the Tinto estuary, is the "Estero de Domingo Rubio"
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It's a wetland with two environments: one with fresh water and the other with salt water. In it grow pine trees, savin juniper
trees and Mediterranean scrub; cordgrass, rushes, tamarisks, alkali bulrushes, bulrushes and reeds; and in it live animals such as eels, coots, purple swamphens,
mallards, little egrets, marsh harriers, dunlins, black-winged stilts, plovers, sandpipers, kingfishers, cattle egrets and cormorants.
The area also contains the Palos and Las Madres Lagoons Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which is situated in the municipalities of Palos and
Moguer. It's a complex
of lagoons, amongst which is the second largest in Andalusia, that of Las Madres, measuring one hundred hectares. They're peri-dunal lagoons in which grow common
reeds, bulrushes, tamarisks, willows, white poplars, rushes, water lilies, savin juniper trees, broom, rosemary, and juniper trees; and in which live water fowl such
as the white-headed duck, the red-knobbed coot, the squacco heron, the pochard, the mallard, the shoveler, the teal, the whiskered tern, the grey heron, the purple
heron, the marsh harrier and the osprey. There are also otters, which find here their food source: crayfish.
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