Pico Caldoveiro - Puertu de Marabiu (20430505706)

Caldoveiro Peak (Pico Caldoveiro) is a

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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 ari ...

Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensiv ...

, Northern

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

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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 pop ...

Proaza Proaza is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Santo Adriano and Grado, on the south by Teverga and Quirós, on the west by Yernes y Tameza and Teverga, and on the east ...

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 po ...

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

Fluorite Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. It belongs to the halide minerals. It crystallizes in isometric cubic habit, although octahedral and more complex isometric forms are not uncommon. The Mohs sca ...

Calcite Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). It is a very common mineral, particularly as a component of limestone. Calcite defines hardness 3 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, based on scratc ...

, 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 f ...

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

Travel

One

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

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