The document provides an overview of Anoia County in Catalonia, Spain. It covers the county's physical geography including location, mountains, rivers and landscapes. It also discusses human geography such as towns and population. Additionally, it describes the history, tourist attractions, culture, climate, geology, plants, animals and economy of the county. The document utilizes over 50 photos and images to illustrate the key features of Anoia County.

1. Getting to know ANOIA COUNTY Noemi Redondo and Lidia Sanchez PELE 2010/2011

3. Physical Geography

7. Anoia’s Relief Anoia River Montserrat Rubió Range Miralles Range Piera Plain Odena Basin Prats de Rei Plain

9. ANOIA LANDSCAPES

10. Mediterranean Forest (Bellprat) In this mountain there is a forest with a lot of trees. At the bottom of the picture there is a cereals field. At the background, the sky is blue.

11. Montserrat Natural Park (El Bruc) In this photo of Montserrat mountains you can see a lot of rocks. We can see the effects of erosion. It is sunny. In the foreground there is a shadow.

12. Anoia Basin from la Tossa (Santa Margarida de Montbui) In the background you can see the horizon. In the middle of the fields there is a path. It is foggy. There are trees dividing the fields.

13. Vineyard (Santa Maria de Miralles) In the foreground there is a vineyard. There is a field of grapes. In the background there are some hills. There is a building in the middle. Probably there is a river near the building.

14. Calaf Plain (Pujalt) The sky is cloudy. There is a field.The crop in the field is grain. There are two wind turbines. There are trees on the horizon.

15. GEOLOGY Conglomerate Sandstone Clay Marl

16. Travertine Limestone Pisolitic bauxite Bauxite

17. Lignite Foliated Gypsum Gypsum Fibrous Gypsum Coarse sand Vallbona

18. Granite Quartzite Slate

19. Climate of La Panadella La Panadella recieves the least precipitation of Anoia county. La Panadella has the highest temperature in summer and the lowest temperature in winter of the county. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Temperature (in ºC) 2,5 4,5 8 9 16,3 20,4 21,8 22,6 17,5 14 9,5 4,3 Precipitation (in mm) 59,8 13 54,2 139,1 1,5 49,3 23,8 9,8 18,6 64,6 5,5 58

20. Climate of Hostalets de Pierola Hostalets de Pierola has the highest precipitation of the county. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Temperature (in ºC) 6,3 7,8 10,4 12,1 18,3 21,8 23,6 24,7 20 16,7 12,3 7,8 Precipitation (in mm) 61,3 29,3 60 96,5 15,7 31,8 47,1 34,7 41,9 99,8 1,8 53,3

21. Amphibians Salamander Mediterranean tree frog Common toad

22. Reptiles Common lizard Green snake Iberian viper Mediterranean Gecko Slow worm

23. Peregrine falcon Wallcreeper Thrush Wood pigeon BIRDS Bee-eater Bonelli eagle Warbler

24. Mammals Wild pig Ibex Marten Common Genet Red squirrel

26. Human Geography

28. Population

29. Paper mill The manufacture of paper was a slow, costly and laborious intensive process. The material used to make paper is a vegetable-based: old rags, rope, nets…

30. The process People selected and cla si fication xxx the material. They placed the material in a dust remover. XXX Put the material into a vat of water. XXX Pulverized the material in the pulp mortars XXX Mixed a fine pulp with water in a vat. Produced a fine pulp

31. Xxx Lifted it up. The paper maker submerged the mold into a vat. XXX Transferred the sheet of paper onto a coarse woolen cloth. XXX Repeated it until they had 250 sheets The press with its crank was used to squeeze most of the excess moisiture from the pile. The sheets of paper were hung to dry with a t-shaped tool

32. XXX Made a gelatine from animal bones and scraps boiled in water. XXXPut the paper into the vat of gelatine to coat the surface XXX Pressed the paper to distribuye the gelatine uniformly across each sheet of paper. The paper was hung up to dry. XXX Passed the paper under a smoothing malled powered. XXX Straightened the rough irregular edges of paper XXX Inspected the paper.

33. XXX Counted and packaged the sheets of paper into reams of 500 sheets each. Each ream was wrapped, lab ele d or stamped to identify it.

34. Communications To come to Igualada. You have to take a FFCC train in Pla Ç a Espanya, Barcelona, in direction to Igualada. It is also possible to take a coach “Hispano Igualadina” at Diagonal or you can use your own means of transport,e.g car (45min. approx. )

35. History

37. Popular Army Training Base The Republican Army created a training base in Pujalt. Young men were recruited to fight with the Republican Army.The base was created in spring of 1938, towards the end of the Spanish civil war. The base was necessary to prepare men for fighting.

38. Tourist Attractions

39. Geocaching Geocaching is a high-tech adventure hunting game placed around the World by adventure seerkers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to go outside and locate hidden containers called geocaches using a GPS enabled device. You need put the coordinates into your GPS device and head outside to find a cache. If you follow the c oordin ates, finally you will find the cache.

41. Here lived the Neanderthals and they made the food and did their daily chores The archeologists are looking for fire pits, animals and tools that had been cut down by the neanderthals. They built weapons, punches and spears with the stones.

42. The castle and the church of La Tossa mountain in Sta. Margarida de Montbui. Places to visit Castle of La Pobla de Claramunt

43. Tourist attractions in Igualada The basilica of Santa María Museum of Traginers Leather museum

44. Culture

47. THE DRUMMER OF THE “EL BRUC” ThIt is a story that explains how an unarmed Group of villagers were able to stop the invading French Army. When you go to the Montserrat Mountains you can still hear the drum’s echo.

55. THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE COURSE

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