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Site:AR30

REINFFORCE - Arboretum - A VEIGA-FINCA ROBLES
Municipality: A Pobra de Brollon
Region: Galicia
Country: Spain
Website: http://www.xunta.es/portada
Partner in charge of the site: CIF
Responsible name: Francisco Javier Silva Pando

Site characteristics

Altitude (m): 420
Topography: terrace
Orientation: SW
Slope: 2.0
Hydrology: TERRACE SITUATED IN THE RIVER CABE BASIN, INCLUDED IN THE MONFORTE CUATERNARY DEPRESSION
South containment: 0
Soil type: UMBRISOLS
Soil sub-type:
Parent rock: acid regional metamorphic rocks

Climate

Average temperature (°C): 12.8
Average precipitation (mm): 1051
Number of frost days: 43
Reference period for climatic data: 1961-2000

History of the site

‘Finca Granxa Robles’ was a private land whose owner, José María Gil-Robles (1898-1980) jurist, politician, university professor was the War Ministry in the past. He sold the farm in 1949 to the national State to create a Research Agrarian Centre. Later, in 1993 the land was transferred to the Galician autonomic administration, Xunta de Galicia. Now, is a public property managed by the Agrarian Research Centre of Mabegondo CIAM, subordinated as CIF Lourizán, to the Rural Environment and Sea Department of the autonomic administration, Xunta de Galicia. Permission to establish the experimental plot was asked to the responsible of research in this agricultural and livestock farmland. The CIAM, as an institute belonging to the autonomic administration, Xunta de Galicia, is the responsible of the management and conservation of this place, executed by their own CIAM staff. They give us permission to manage a delimited forest area occupying 2ha, inside the farmland. The local area where the arboretum was setting was occupied by a natural shrubland and oakwood forest. The location was choose because is a representative Mediterranean area of Galicia, with significant summer drought, and more extreme temperatures than in coastal places (AR29 and AR31) due to it continental character. Under a floristic point of view, is included in the boundary area between Eurosiberian and Mediterranean Region.
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Provenances on site

Provenance N Provenance
Acer pseudoplatanus 7
Betula pendula 5
Calocedrus decurrens 3
Castanea sativa 10
Cedrus atlantica 4
Cedrus libani subsp. libani 1
Ceratonia siliqua 3
Cunninghamia lanceolata 2
Cupressus sempervirens 4
Eucalyptus globulus 2
Eucalyptus gundal 2
Eucalyptus nitens 3
Fagus sylvatica 2
Fagus sylvatica subsp. orientalis 3
Larix decidua 4
Liquidambar styraciflua 4
Pinus brutia 6
Pinus elliottii 3
Pinus nigra subsp. laricio 2
Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii 2
Pinus pinaster 7
Pinus pinea 4
Pinus ponderosa 4
Pinus sylvestris 6
Pinus taeda 3
Pseudotsuga menziesii 6
Quercus ilex subsp. rotundifolia 4
Quercus petraea subsp. petraea 3
Quercus robur 5
Quercus rubra 2
Quercus shumardii 1
Quercus suber 6
Robinia pseudoacacia 4
Sequoia sempervirens 3
Thuja plicata 4