The Peña Falconera or Huevo de Morrano (Morrano egg) is a rock formation near the village of
Morrano, northwest of
Somontano de Barbastro
Somontano de Barbastro ( Aragonese: ''Semontano de Balbastro)'' is a comarca in Province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain.
Somontano borders the ''comarcas'' of Sobrarbe and Alto Gállego to the north, Ribagorza and La Litera to the east, Cinca Med ...
,
Province of Huesca
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Positioned just south of the central Pyrenees, Huesca borders France and the French departments of Haute-Garonne, Pyrénées- ...
.
This rock formation is composed of a monolith with a mixture of
sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is usually defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural ...
and
conglomerate somewhat eroded.
It is located in the
Parque de la Sierra y Cañones de Guara, a few meters from the
river Alcanadre and close to the "fountain de la Tamara", is also near the pine forest of
Morrano where
pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.
''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...
are that are the most southerly of all the
natural park and the
Alto Aragon too.
Name
The inhabitants of
Morrano have always called the formation "Peña Falconera" because according to tradition in this area
falcon
Falcons () are birds of prey in the genus ''Falco'', which includes about 40 species. Some small species of falcons with long, narrow wings are called hobbies, and some that hover while hunting are called kestrels. Falcons are widely distrib ...
s were bred, and "falcon" is the word's translation into the
Aragonese language
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. Today the nickname "Falconero" is still used by the inhabitants of Morrano.
A few years ago the stone was given a new name with the creation of the natural park. This name, "Huevo de Morrano" (Morrano egg), was created by a forester. In
Spanish
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...
, the name is "Alconera Peña," although that version is used much less frequently. The name "Peña los Pacos"
Circular al Huevo de Morrano
guara.info is also used.
See also
* Morrano
References
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Mountains of Aragon
Pre-Pyrenees