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    The Picos de Europa ("Peaks of Europe", also the Picos) are a mountain range extending for about 20 km (12 mi), forming part of the Cantabrian Mountains...
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    The Picos de Europa National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional de Picos de Europa) is a National Park in the Picos de Europa mountain range, in northern...
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    west of the Picos de Europa Sierra de Dobros, north of the Picos de Europa The Picos de Europa are divided into three sectors or massifs: Cornión Massif...
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    Cares Trail (category Picos de Europa)
    Ruta del Cares is one of the most popular trekking paths within the Picos de Europa, the route is situated between the province of León and Asturias, in...
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    and another in Astorga. The province shares the Picos de Europa National Park (in the Picos de Europa mountain range) with Cantabria and Asturias. It...
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    level, it is in the Cantabrian mountains near the foothills of the Picos de Europa. Due to planned construction of a dam and reservoir in the 1980s, for...
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    municipality is also Cangas de Onís. More than seventy square kilometres of the conceyu form part of the Parque nacional de los Picos de Europa. Within the park...
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    accounting for about 28% of all visitors. The second most visited park was Picos de Europa (17%), followed by Ordesa y Monte Perdido (13%). The least visited...
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    and the army of the Umayyad Caliphate. Fought near Covadonga, in the Picos de Europa, it resulted in a victory for the forces of Pelagius. It is traditionally...
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    Cabrales cheese (category Picos de Europa)
    in a small zone of production in Asturias, in the mountains of the Picos de Europa. The milk is first heated and curdled by the addition of rennet. The...
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    Enol and Lake Ercina located in the Picos de Europa range and they are the original center of the Picos de Europa National Park, created in 1918. They...
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    most important natural parks in Spain, and is very renowned for the Picos de Europa and Somiedo areas. The Gijón area was marked and singled out as one...
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    covered with a deep green mantle. Llanes lies to the north of the Picos de Europa, a mountain range whose geology is almost entirely of limestone karst...
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    National Exhibition with La Canal de Mancorbo en los Picos de Europa ("The Canal of Mancorbo in the Picos de Europa") later acquired by the Spanish state...
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    more alpine rather than genuinely oceanic. Lake Enol, Picos de Europa National Park, Picos de Europa, Asturias. Redes Natural Park, Asturias. Basque coast...
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    It is a cave in the Picos de Europa mountains, which gives its name to the parish of Covadonga in the municipality of Cangas de Onís. The name refers...
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    passes of Sejos, El Escudo and La Sía. The great limestone masses of Picos de Europa also stand out in the southwest of the region: most of their summits...
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    Cuadro sinóptico de los sistemas montañosos españoles, .xls table on www.ine.es "La tecnología destrona al Pico de las Nieves como techo de la isla". Media...
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    Cabrales (category Picos de Europa)
    Sierra de Cuera and the Picos de Europa, and is a region famous for its Cabrales cheese. Important towns within the municipality include Arenas de Cabrales...
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    Covadonga (category Picos de Europa)
    Cangas de Onís, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in Northwestern Spain. It is situated in the Picos de Europa mountains...
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    some 210 animals in Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia and León, in the Picos de Europa and adjacent areas in 2013) in the west, to Russia in the east, and...
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    describe the Macizo Central. Naranjo de Bulnes is part of the Cabrales region of Asturias, and lies within the Picos de Europa National Park. The first written...
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    town that forms part of the Picos de Europa (Peaks of Europe). It is bordered on the east by Llanes, on the south by Cangas de Onís and Parres, and on the...
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    Portuguese ibex (C. p. lusitanica). Remnant populations survive in the Picos de Europa and other parts of the Cantabrian Mountains, along with some reintroductions...
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    (Spanish: Funicular de Bulnes) is an underground funicular connecting the villages of Bulnes and Poncebos in the Picos de Europa region of the Cantabrian...
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    contains coal. To the east this grades into the marine carbonates of the Picos de Europa. In the Pisuerga-Carrion province, there are conglomerates composed...
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  • range outside the Picos de Europa Peña Cebollera, a mountain in the Sistema Ibérico, one of the four highest peaks of the system Peña de las Once, a mountain...
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    the heart of Picos de Europa with Fuente was firstly developed by José Antonio Odriozola, former president of the ''Federación Española de Montañismo...
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    mountains of the Picos de Europa range: the Transmontani (located in the modern Asturias, "beyond"— that is, north of— the Picos de Europa) and Cismontani...
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    Sotres (category Picos de Europa)
    eastern extreme of the province. The highest of all villages in the Picos de Europa National Park, it is part of the designated Biosphere Reserve and is...
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