Set in a countryside
of olive groves and cereal cultivation, Utrera is a large
agricultural town with a few fine churches and mansions. More >
Utrera Natural Reserve
contains three saltwater lakes. More
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By Jo Williams
Marshland
to the South
South of Seville is the Guadalquivir
River Plain that flattens out into a somewhat monotonous
landscape relieved by the occasional whitewashed town or village,
the most interesting of these being Lebrija and
Utrera.
Southeast of Seville is Alcalá de
Guadaira and, close to the Cadiz provincial border,
the charming hilltop village of Morón de la Frontera.
Both of these retain remains of their important Moorish heritage.
The Guadalquivir river estuary has several important
wetland sites, which are popular with migrating birds in spring
and autumn and, in winter, flocks of wildfowl. Brazo del
Este Natural Area is the most remarkable of these and features
a large population of purple gallinules along with over 200 species
of other birds. Near the river delta is a series of lakes in the
Lebrija - Las Cabezas Natural Reserve and the Utrera
Natural Reserve, both of which also attract a significant
number of birds. The Guadalquivir delta forms part of the protected
environs of the Doñana National Park.
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