Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park

Picos de Europa National Park is the oldest and most extensive National Park in Spain, a symbol of conservationism and management of Iberian nature. The present day use is defined by abandoned ancient traditional structures, summer livestock and mainly tourism in and around the National Park, and ov...

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Authors: Serrano Cañadas, E., González Trueba, Juan José
Format: article
Publication Date:2011
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repository:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Language:English
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/28590
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Geotourist maps
Environmental education
Natural Protected Areas
Geomorphosites
Picos de Europa
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spelling Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National ParkSerrano Cañadas, E.González Trueba, Juan JoséGeotourist mapsEnvironmental educationNatural Protected AreasGeomorphositesPicos de EuropaPicos de Europa National Park is the oldest and most extensive National Park in Spain, a symbol of conservationism and management of Iberian nature. The present day use is defined by abandoned ancient traditional structures, summer livestock and mainly tourism in and around the National Park, and over the last forty years the visitors of the National Park has grown until 2 million per year. The context of the map it framed in the next questions, which places are most frequented by visitors?, what places are the most interesting to visitors?, what are visitors looking for?, and who visits the National park? The main type of visitors are mountaineers (1,5%), hikers (5), active tourists (10%), recreational tourists (66%) and students (16%). Hikers and active tourist represent the 18% of visitors to the National Park, over 120,000 visitors per year. They are, joint the monitors and teachers guiding students groups, the main objective of documents and geotouristic maps. The map has five levels of reading (planimetry, altimetry, geomorphology, human uses and tourist routes), the elements are represented by areas, patterns and symbols in colours, and the selected significant elements represent the topography, geomorphological features (glacial, karst, nivation, landslide) and human remains (mining, grazing) and routes between geomorphosites and more representative scenic view points. The interpretative geotouristic maps are useful tools to develop an approach to tourist activity and for interpret nature and landscapes from direct knowledge of the field but also they are a powerful tool for environmental educationin National Parks and Natural Protected Areas.This work was funded by the projects OAPN 053/2010 (Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Environment, Spain) and the support of the Picos deEuropa National Park.Editura Universittatii din OradeaUniversidad de Cantabria20112011-11-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/10902/28590Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites 2011, IV, 8(2), 295-308reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/285902026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park
title Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park
spellingShingle Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park
Serrano Cañadas, E.
Geotourist maps
Environmental education
Natural Protected Areas
Geomorphosites
Picos de Europa
title_short Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park
title_full Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park
title_fullStr Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park
title_full_unstemmed Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park
title_sort Environmental education and landscape leisure. Geotourist map and geomorphosites in the Picos de Europa National Park
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Serrano Cañadas, E.
González Trueba, Juan José
author Serrano Cañadas, E.
author_facet Serrano Cañadas, E.
González Trueba, Juan José
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author2 González Trueba, Juan José
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Geotourist maps
Environmental education
Natural Protected Areas
Geomorphosites
Picos de Europa
topic Geotourist maps
Environmental education
Natural Protected Areas
Geomorphosites
Picos de Europa
description Picos de Europa National Park is the oldest and most extensive National Park in Spain, a symbol of conservationism and management of Iberian nature. The present day use is defined by abandoned ancient traditional structures, summer livestock and mainly tourism in and around the National Park, and over the last forty years the visitors of the National Park has grown until 2 million per year. The context of the map it framed in the next questions, which places are most frequented by visitors?, what places are the most interesting to visitors?, what are visitors looking for?, and who visits the National park? The main type of visitors are mountaineers (1,5%), hikers (5), active tourists (10%), recreational tourists (66%) and students (16%). Hikers and active tourist represent the 18% of visitors to the National Park, over 120,000 visitors per year. They are, joint the monitors and teachers guiding students groups, the main objective of documents and geotouristic maps. The map has five levels of reading (planimetry, altimetry, geomorphology, human uses and tourist routes), the elements are represented by areas, patterns and symbols in colours, and the selected significant elements represent the topography, geomorphological features (glacial, karst, nivation, landslide) and human remains (mining, grazing) and routes between geomorphosites and more representative scenic view points. The interpretative geotouristic maps are useful tools to develop an approach to tourist activity and for interpret nature and landscapes from direct knowledge of the field but also they are a powerful tool for environmental educationin National Parks and Natural Protected Areas.
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