Tierra de Campos

Tierra de Campos
Tierra de Campos
Capital
Municipalities	List See text;
Elevation	740 m (2,430 ft)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Largest municipality	Palencia

Characteristic Tierra de Campos landscape near Abastas.

Tierra de Campos ("Land of Fields") is a large

León, Zamora, Valladolid and Palencia, in Castile and León, Spain. It is a vast, desolate plain with practically no relief

, except for some wide undulations of the terrain.

Originally it was known as "Gothic Plains" (Campi Gothici or Campi Gothorum), as the area had been settled by

Aquitaine Gaul after its conquest by the Franks. It was first mentioned under this name in Codex Vigilanus (Codex Albeldensis), and described as extending "from the river Douro, to the Christian Kingdom".^[1]

Despite the strong identity of its inhabitants, this historical region has not been able to achieve the necessary legal recognition for its administrative development. Therefore, its municipalities have resorted to organizing themselves in a mancomunidad,^[2] the only legal formula that has allowed the region to manage its public municipal resources meaningfully. Palencia is widely considered to be the capital of the Tierra de Campos.

Geography

"Tierra de Campos" is located on a fertile, elevated plateau with an average height of around 720 metres (2,360 ft), its geography is typical of the

wetlands in Tierra de Campos, like the Laguna de la Nava de Fuentes and the Lagunas de Villafáfila, are important for the ecology of the region.^[3]

There are few natural forested areas left. The Tierra de Campos is the place with the highest concentration of bustard in the Iberian Peninsula, and possibly in the world.^[4]

There is no unanimous agreement regarding the precise boundaries of the Tierra de Campos. Since it is a natural and traditional region, no official limits have ever been assigned. One of the most widely accepted system of boundaries^[5] has been the following:

In the north: The foothills of the Cantabrian Mountains between Sahagún and Carrión de los Condes.
In the east: The
Carrión and Pisuerga
river basins.

In the south: The hills of Montes Torozos and the Sequillo river basin.
In the west: The
Cea River
further north.

Municipalities

León Province

Zamora Province

Valladolid Province

Palencia Province

Maps of Tierra de Campos areas in different provinces

Tierra de Campos Zamorana
Tierra de Campos in Palencia
Tierra de Campos of Valladolid; in purple
Tierra de Campos Leonesa; in brown.

References

^ Vaca Lorenzo, Ángel. "LA TIERRA DE CAMPOS Y SUS BASES ECOLÓGICAS EN EL SIGLO XIV". STVDIA HISTORICA. HISTORIA MEDIEVAL., page 3, Campos quos dicunt Goticos usque adflumen Dorium eremauit, et xpistianorum regnum extendit
^ Mancomunidad de Tierra de Campos
^ La Tierra de Campos, Patrimonio Natural
^ Proyecto Avutarda - Bustard Project
^ Justo González Garrido, Tierra de Campos. Región Natural, 1941.

External links

42°00′N 4°00′W / 42.000°N 4.000°W / 42.000; -4.000

[Vaca-1] Vaca Lorenzo, Ángel. "LA TIERRA DE CAMPOS Y SUS BASES ECOLÓGICAS EN EL SIGLO XIV". STVDIA HISTORICA. HISTORIA MEDIEVAL., page 3, Campos quos dicunt Goticos usque adflumen Dorium eremauit, et xpistianorum regnum extendit

[2] Mancomunidad de Tierra de Campos

[3] La Tierra de Campos, Patrimonio Natural

[4] Proyecto Avutarda - Bustard Project

[5] Justo González Garrido, Tierra de Campos. Región Natural, 1941.

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