THE Sierra de Atapuerca It is home to a quarter of the floristic wealth of the entire province of Burgos and, among them, there are almost 150 specimens of a species protected in the Catalog of Flora of Castile and León, called “Jonopsidium savianum”, the Sierra de Atapuerca being the only place where it can be observed.
It is a small cruciferous tree among the light oak forests of the high Sierra plateau. In the Iberian Peninsula it is distributed throughout Castile and León and La Rioja and, within the Community, it only exists in the provinces of Burgos and Soria (Sierra de Cameros). In the Sierra de Burgos it was found on only 20 square meters of surface.
This was announced yesterday by the head of the Territorial Environmental Service of the Junta de Castilla y León de Burgos, Javier María García López, during the presentation of the book and the exhibition “Sierra de Atapuerca”. A botanical look. The exhibition, which today houses the Environmental Classroom of the Caja de Burgos Foundation, was carried out as part of the collaboration between the Atapuerca and Caja de Burgos foundations, and is made up of 24 panels in which the most important elements more representative of the flora of the Burgos Mountains through descriptive photographs.
It is the result of the work carried out from 2020 to 2024 to create the floristic catalog of the Sierra de Atapuerca. and a book that includes detailed photographs of more than three hundred species of vascular plants out of the more than six hundred located today in this geographic area.
In this sense, the author of the publication also explained that This white plant, about two centimeters long, is “the most valuable” in the entire Sierra. and insisted on the importance of being a protected species in the Catalog of Protected Plants of Castilla y León, which – he said – “connects us to the cultural theme of the Sierra”. “This plant followed the migratory movements of livestock; This plant is livestock which, when it passes its seed through the digestive tract, causes it to germinate.
Likewise, García explained that this plant is one of the first to flower in the Sierra de Atapuerca and that it does so in mid-March in “very few places under a few holm oaks.” “Suddenly, it’s like frost, it’s as if it had snowed and it turns into a little white carpet,” he added, while applauding that “these are these beautiful hidden values of Sierra that we wanted to highlight with this film.” exposure.”
Likewise, he emphasized that of the approximately 2,500 plant species currently recorded in the province of BurgosDuring the 2020 to 2024 campaigns, some 600 species were spotted on the 2,250 hectares of the area covered. This means, he said, that a territory of just 0.15 percent of the provincial area is home to a quarter of the province’s floristic wealth, Ical reports.
The president of the Atapuerca Foundation, Antonio Méndez Pozo, also attended the opening ceremony; its vice-president and co-director of the Sierra de Atapuerca deposits, Eudald Carbonell; as well as the director of the Environmental Classes of the Caja de Burgos Foundation, Miguel Ángel Pinto
The exhibition is carried out within the collaboration between the Atapuerca Foundation and the Caja de Burgos Foundation and also coincides with the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Atapuerca Foundation and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Classes. It is the result of the work carried out between 2020 and 2024 to prepare the floristic catalog of the Sierra de Atapuerca, the first carried out in said territory, which has been collected in a book, titled the same as the exhibition, which will be presented in company in Cultural Cordón at the end of November.
