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The cove
The cove is found in a reservoir that it extends on a surface of 11,25 hectares and is constituted from a pianoro located to average coast of the Climiti mounts, from which can be admired a splendid panorama of Goes them of the Anapo.
The Palombara Cove is one fossil carsica cavity, that is more not interested from water circulation inside. Total development of approximately 800 meters has one. The income is constituted from a deep voragine a dozen of meters and wide equally, in bottom to which it can be only reached with the use of ropes and speleologiche ladders. Exceeded a series of narrow cunicoli and one tightened fissure (passage in opposition), is reached the large one “Knows it of Is gone”, therefore said as a result of the recovery, in years' 60, of two is gone to hourglass of the castellucciana phase, subsequently trafugati from ignoti. From here, it is arrived to “Knows it of the Guano”, an immense atmosphere characterized from once to shape of high cupola a ten of meters, where a numerous colony of bats Vespertilio greater (Myotis lives myotis), whose excrements are accumulate on the pavement of the cavity forming a great heap to you of guano that accommodates one rich fauna guanobia. From “It knows it of the Guano”, dipartono two called ramifications one “Branch of the Geode” and the other “Branch of the Small lake”. It is in bottom to the voragine of access, is inside of the cavity have been recovered large fossil bony rests of Vertebrati, which wild boars, ippopotami, red deers, lupi, vixens, buoi selvati to us (uri), let alone of resisted them and micromammalian, which Crocidura, Oak, Field mouse, wild Rat.
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In numerous alive the protected area one epigea fauna constituted from species of Invertebrates. Between the Vertebrati, the Rectums them are represent to you from the rustic Lucertola (sicilian Podarcis), from the sicialian Lucertola (Podarcis waglerianua) endemic species of the Sicily, from the western Ramarro (bidelineated Lacerta) and from the Coluber greater (Hierophis viridiflavus), while between the Birds we number the Gazza (pica Pica), the Sparrow hermit (Monticola solitarius), the Gheppio (Hawk tinnunculus), the travelling Hawk (Hawk peregrinus), the Airone cenerino (cinerea Ardea), the wild Pigeon (Columba livia) and the Colombaccio (Columba palumbus). The faunistico popolamento cavernicolo of the Palombara Cove is varied and rich much of species and comprises essentially one important member guanobia. Of particular naturalistic interest it is the presence of animals that entire complete their biological cycle in cove and introduce peculiar fisio-morphologic adaptations to the underground atmosphere (troglobi), like the pseudoscorpion Roncus siculus, present endemic species also in the near Monello Cove. Between the organisms that attend the cavity but that they are not I excluded you of it (troglofili) go mentions to you, in particular, the bats Vespertilio greater (Myotis myotis), Miniottero (Miniopterus to schreibersi), Rinolofo eurialo (euryale Rhinolophus) and Rinolofo di Mehely (Rhinolophus mehelyi). Animals of other groups can themselves be recovered inside occasionally of the cove (troglosseni), like the common Rospo (Bufo bufo).
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Geology
The Iblei Mounts extend in the extreme Southeastern region of the Sicily on one surface of beyond 4.500 Kmq, with one medium quota approximately 500m slm. Here, limestone lands of age comprised between Cretaceous and the Quaternario emerge mostly. Their litologici characters put in evidence a various evolution of the sedimentarie series, from the Cretaceous one to Miocene, in the fields western and orient them. To this diversification he corresponded, in fact, one variation in the marine top-environmental characteristics, respective to east with character of little deep sea, to the west with mostly pelagico character, of open sea. The lands emerging in the iblea area, to the West, are represent from the F.ne Ragusa, constituted from one calcarenitica marly succession to you subdivided in the two members “Leonardo” and “Irminio”. In the field the Formation of the Clìmiti Mounts orients them is present, whose inferior member (Monte Melilli) is characterized from calcareniti and calciruditi pulverulente, whitish, to microfaunas (foraminiferi planctonici), that advanced (Mount of the Limekilns of Siracusa) from calcareniti and calciruditi containing rests of alghe limestone, colonial, echinoidi and large corals molluschi bivalvi. On the extended ones and it marks full of rocks outcrops to you of the entire one pianoro on which one extends the Reservoir are visible peculiar superficial carsiche shapes of several dimensions, which superficial alveolate ones of corrosion, scannellature, vaschette of corrosion, furrows to carsi to us to shower.
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The landscape vegetable is the expression of the history of every territory. The climate that it insists on the reservoir is of prettamente Mediterranean type, with a period of water deficit coinciding with the summery period. The vegetazionali tipologie of the protected area can be led back to the following categories: formations of spot in impervi and the more full of rocks features; formations to gariga considering itself like are made transitory towards the spot or of degradation of the same one; favorite steppiche formations from the recent abandonment of agricultural lands and formations fisionomicamente individualistic anniversaries in the praticelli ephemeral. On the full of rocks culminations one is recovered characterized shrubby vegetation from the presence of species of xeriche like ogliastro (the European Olea var. sylvestris), alaterno (the Rhamnus alaternus), mirto (the Mirtus communis), calicotome (the Calicotome infests). In the pianeggianti and little full of rocks features a gariga is recovered to small Mediterranean shrubs very adapts you to the siccità of the warm months, between these the thymus (Thymus capitatus), the double camedrio (Teucrium flavum), the canutola (Teucrium polium), ononide (the Ononis natrix), the yellow salvione (fruticosa Phlomis) and spinaporci (the Sarcopoterium spinosum). In the pianeggianti features and with full of rocks and little deep ground, insedia a perennial steppica vegetation to cespitose graminacee that often characterize the appearance of tavolati the limestone iblei. Here two graminacee abound above all: the tramp (Andropogon distachyus) and the Mediterranean poodle (Hyparrhenia hirta) that often they accompany themselves to ferulago (the knotted Ferulago).
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