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The reserve protects the curious geological formations and high walls of unique landscape value, as well as an important paleontological site belonging to the period
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exits northwestwards through the mountains that form the eastern side of the valley. It is located near the town of
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Other geoforms that can be observed at the edge of the route are. The
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so-called stromatolites are presented. In the Yesera, there is an important fossil fish deposit, evidence of a process that would have occurred some 15 million years ago: the last entry of the sea to the continent.
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itself. The headwaters of the Santa María River are in the Sierra de
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