What is Bardenas Reales?
The '''Bardenas Reales''' is a [[semi-desert]] [[natural region]], or [[badlands]]. It is about {{convert|42000|ha}} and is located in [[southeast]] [[Navarre]] ([[Spain]]). The [[soil]]s are made up of [[clay]], [[chalk]] and [[sandstone]]. They have been [[Erosion|eroded]] by water and wind. This has created a number of shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular structures and isolated hills, called seamounts. Bardenas lacks [[urban]] areas and [[vegetation]] is scarce. ==Location== The Bardenas is in the southeast of Navarra, bordering [[Aragon]].<ref>Caroline Trefler, ''Spain 2009'' (New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., 2009), p. 271</ref> It is located in the middle of the depression of the Ebro valley<ref>''Geomorfología y territorio: actas de la IX Reunión Nacional de Geomorfología'' eds. Augusto Pérez Alberti; Juan López Bedoya (Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2006), p. 656</ref> at the foot of the mountains of the [[Yugo]] and the [[Zaragoza]] region of [[Cinco Villas]]. It is {{convert|45|km|abbr=on}} from north to south and {{convert|24|km|abbr=on}} east-west and at an altitude ranging between {{convert|280|and|659|m|abbr=on}}. Its area is {{convert|41845|ha}}. Limited to sixteen municipalities, of which thirteen are in Navarre and three in the province of Zaragoza. == Gallery == <gallery> File:Bardena Blanca.JPG|The White Bardena Image:Bardenas Reales 31.JPG|Cabezo Castildetierra Image:Bardeak.jpg|A cabezo Image:Bardenas Reales6.jpg|Cabezo Castildetierra Image:Bardenas Reales5.jpg|Eroded gullies File:Bardenas Reales 4.jpg|Ravines File:F-4E-81st-tfs.jpg|A U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4E-61-MC Phantom II (s/n 74-1630) from the 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 52nd Tactical Wing, releasing 18 Mark 82 227&nbsp;kg bombs over the Bardenas Reales Gunnery Range, Spain, on 25 March 1986 File:Manifestacion en contra del poligono de tiro de las Bardenas Reales en Tudela (2008).jpg|Demonstration against the Bardenas Reales bombing range in [[Tudela, Navarre|Tudela]] </galle