MY VILLAGE- GEMA DEL VINO (ZAMORA)

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF A CLIMATE GRAPH

A climate graph is a graph that represents the precipitations (Pmm) and the temperatures (TºC) of a place over the course of a rain.

Talking about the precipitations we can say that the total amount of rainfall is 1325 mm so they are abundant. The precipitations are regular because there is one arid month. The season with the highest amount of precipitation is the fall and the one with the lowest amount of precipitation is the summer. The precipitations are in form of snow in the winter and in form of rain the rest of the year.
Very abundant rainfall in Spain´s climate is related to Alpine and regularprecipitations are related to Oceanic climate.

Analizing the temperatures the annual average is 6,4ºC, as a result they are low. Summers are cool because they are below 20ºC and winters are cold because January is the coldest month and the average of temperature is -0,6ºC. The temperature range is high, 16,8ºC and indicates that it´s located in the interior.

Moving to the analysis of arid months we can say that there is one arid month, August and looking to the Martonne index it´s a humid climate because the total rainfall is very abundant.

Taking in to acount the precipitations, temperatures, and aridity we can now that this climate is Alpine because the total rainfall is very abundant, the annual average of temperature is low, the temperature range is high and the Martonne Index is humid. 

Know that we knew that is an Alpine climate we have to located geographically. It´s an Alpine climate located in the Central System because there´s one arid month, the temperature range shows that is an inland area and the temperatures are cool in summer and cold in winter, that determinate that it´s located in the center of Spain.

Finally, talking about the natural and human landscape we have to say that vegetation is arranged in levels. The first level, mediterranean forests or cultivated crpos at the foot of the mountain, the next level, decidious forests and conifer forests, then the shrubland and mountain meadows appear at 1600m and the last level, highest peaks doesn´t have vegetation. There are few inhabitants and they lived in farmhouses or in small villages. The economy is based on livestock farming and logging.


CLIMATE´S GRAPH

ANALYSIS OF A TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE

A topographic profile is the graphic representation of the relieve of an area, obtained by cutting transversely the contour lines of a topographic map.

The profile that we are going to analyze goes from the Gulf of Lion to the Cape of S. Vicente. The line follows a NE-SW direction and goes through the following units of relief: The Pyrenees, The Depression of the River Ebro, The Iberian System, The Southern Sub-Plateau, Montes de Toledo and The Depression of the River Guadalquivir.

The first unit crossed by the line is The Pyrenees. This mountain range was formed during the Tertiary Era as a consequence of the Alpine orogeny. It has a simple structure formed by three sectors: the zone axial of the Pyrenees that correspond to the Hercynian Massif, that have the biggest altitude of the mountain range ( Aneto 3404 and Lost Mountain 3348 m). The pre pyrenees] were formed during the Tertiary Era. It´s formed by the foldings of the deposits accumulated in the Pyrenean Trench and the medium depression is a large and stretch depression that separated the interior sierras and the exterior depression, formed by clays and loams.

The next unit of relieve crossed by the line is The Depression of the River Ebro. This depression is parallel to the Pyrenees, the Iberian System and the Cordillera Costero-Catalana. This relief have somontanas that are flat lands a bit inclined, mallos that are characterized in this zone and small moorland or mesas and also badlands over the softest materials.

Then we are going to speak about the Iberian System. This mountain range was formed during the Tertiary Era. His structure it is distinguish in two sectors: the third north include the higher altitudes in the mountain range, Picos de Urbión with 2235 m the most important sierras are la Demanda and Moncayo. It's divided in two branch the interior with the Sierra de Albarracín and la Serrania de Cuenca and the branch aragonesa are the sierras of Javalambre y Guadal and the principal peak is Javalambre with 2020m.

Then, the next unit of relieve crossed by the line is The Southern Sub-Plateau.It was formed during the Tertiary Era as a result of the Alpine Orogeny.This relief is formed by moorlands, lowlands and cuestas.

After this we are going to talk about the Montes de Toledo. This mountain range was formed during the Tertiary Era as a consequence of the Alpine Orogeny. They divide the Southern Sub-Plateau in two. The most important sierra is Guadalupe and the altitude more important is las Villuercas (1601 m).

And the last unit crossed by the line is The Depression of the River Guadalquivir. It´s parallel to the Central System, Sierra Morena and the Atlantic Ocean. This relief is characterized by lowlands ondulated in the zones in which predominated clays and loams and inselbergs.