Pico Caldoveiro - Puertu de Marabiu (20430505706)

Caldoveiro Peak (Pico Caldoveiro) is a

protected Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although th ...

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

in Asturias, Northern

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

, with a maximum peak of 1,357 meters, near the

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

of Villabre. It spans the parishes of

Yernes Yernes is one of two parishes (administrative divisions) in Yernes y Tameza, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. Situated at above sea level, the ''parroquia'' is in size, with a popul ...

, Proaza,

Tameza Tameza is one of two parishes (administrative divisions) in Yernes y Tameza, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. Situated at above sea level, the ''parroquia'' is in size, with a popu ...

, Grau (Grado), and Teberga (Teverga). Minerals found in Caldoveiro mines include Fluorite,

Calcite Calcite is a Carbonate minerals, carbonate mineral and the most stable Polymorphism (materials science), polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). It is a very common mineral, particularly as a component of limestone. Calcite defines hardness 3 on ...

, and

Quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical form ...

. The Asturian administration uses Caldoveiro Peak in its tourism advertising, describing the mountain range as so: Yernes (Concejo de Yernes y Tameza)

Travel

One Spanish source indicates that Caldoveiro Peak is "a nice walk in the surroundings of the Ports of Maravio..."

References

Mountains of Asturias {{Spain-geo-stub