17th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Karstic landscape

At the head of the Roncal Valley is the Larra massif, an immense mass of limestone formed 65 million years ago. Then, the area was formed by a warm and shallow sea, at whose bottom the sediments and remains of the living beings that populated it were deposited. Subsequently, water, snow, ice and wind have externally modeled a particular relief, a chaos of rock dotted here and there by black pines.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2019
Date Uploaded: 11.2019
Photo Location: Valle del Roncal, Spain
Camera: NIKON D810
Copyright: © César Llaneza Rodríguez