Vegacervera is a municipality located in the
province of León
León (, , ; ; ) is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the cap ...
,
Castile and León
Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
,
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
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. According to the 2004
census
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INE
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), the municipality has a population of 334 inhabitants.
The ''Hoces de Vegacervera'' is a
natural landscape
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Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the kn ...
, which takes its name from the municipality.
It is protected as an ''Espacio natural'' and a
Special Area of Conservation.
Site ES4130037
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Wildlife includes the rare Kerry slug
The Kerry slug or Kerry spotted slug (''Geomalacus maculosus'') is a species of terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc. It is a medium-to-large sized, air-breathing land slug in the family of roundback slugs, Arionidae.
Adult Kerry slu ...
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See also
* Province of León
León (, , ; ; ) is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the cap ...
* Montes de León
* Cave of Valporquero
The cave of Valporquero (la cueva de Valporquero" is located at the north of the Province of León (Spain), near the village of Valporquero de Torío in the municipality of Vegacervera and 47 km away from the capital city, León. Open ...
References
External links
Patrimonio Natural de Castilla y León
Municipalities in the Province of León
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