Camino de Santiago: Órbigo Bridge - Astorga
I'm a hooked on the Camino de Santiago. I could not tell you very well why. Today I want to show you a stage that I walked in 2014. It has not been the most beautiful stage of the Camino, but it was the most overwhelming and disturbing. Between the bridge of Órbigo and Astorga the stage runs through the Páramo leonés, through a kilometric desert almost flat. El Páramo leones is a region that is located in the southern half of the province of León. It is just south of the Cantabrian mountain range and is between the fertile valleys and confluences of the Esla and Órbigo rivers. It stands out for being one of the flattest areas of the Iberian Peninsula. It was generated by fluvial deposits millions of years ago and has been preserved almost without erosion until our days. In this area, there were millions of years ago large rivers that dragged a huge amount of materials that, over time, gave rise to this area of great sedimentation in the basin of the river Duero. The r...
