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The town of Peralta is located in the southern third of Navarre, 60 kms south of Pamplona, close to where the Arga and Aragon rivers converge.
From the point of view of the natural conditions, La Corraliza de Don Pablo occupies the bottom of a wide syncline on top of Miocene gypsums and loam belonging to the continental tertiary of the Ebro Basin.
They are the sediments which in their day were deposited on the floor of a large interior sea which occupied the bottom of the Ebro Basin during the second half of the tertiary.
The corraliza’s grounds are moderately deep, located on the low part of an eroded hillside on gypsum at an altitude of 300 m. It has a fine muddy texture with a notable gypsum content and slight salinity.
The climate is Continental Mediterranean which is very typical of the Ebro Basin, with very dry hot summers, temperatures with great annual variations, little and very irregular rainfall –less than 500 mm annually– and a strong north wind (an intense northeast wind which crosses from the Gulf of Biscay to the Mediterranean through the Ebro Valley).
The natural vegetation is made up of pastureland, rosemary bushes and Aleppo pine forests.
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