Desierto de Calanda

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The Desierto de Calanda (German: "Desert of Calanda") is a semi-arid dry area in eastern Spain and is located in southern Aragon in the Ebro basin . The area is hardly populated, the most important settlements are Alcañiz in the east and Calanda in the south. With one exception, there is only one asphalt road (federal highway 232), which is the most important connection between Zaragoza and the east coast in this region . The area is about 120 km from the Mediterranean coast ( Tortosa ) and 100 km from Zaragoza. The Desierto de Calanda is mainly used for pasture in the dry farming system.

The Guadalope River , a tributary of the Ebro, runs in the Desierto de Calanda. The climate is subarid Mediterranean with an annual mean precipitation between 300 mm and 350 mm. The maximum precipitation is achieved in autumn and spring when Spain is in the area of ​​influence of the west wind zone . The summer drought lasts for four months. In the Desierto de Calanda, smaller endorheic basins form (up to several hundred meters in diameter), which can be attributed to the weathering of gypsum in the subsoil and deflation processes of fine particles on the surface. The highest point is the Puig Moreno .

literature

• B. Schütt: The chemistry of playa-lake-sediments as a tool for the reconstruction of Holocene environmental conditions - a case study from the central Ebro basin . In: W. Smykatz-Kloss, P. Felix-Henningsen (Eds.): Paleoecology of Quaternary drylands. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 102 (2004), pp. 5-30.

Coordinates: 41 ° 7 ′  N , 0 ° 16 ′  W