The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, in collaboration with the municipalities of Alfaro (La Rioja) and Castejón (Navarra), organizes a new activity that combines recreational and informative activities for the riverside population in the middle stretch of the Ebro. On May 24, Saturday, there will be an interpretative descent of the Ebro River between the two towns.
Although it is open to the entire population, places are limited and prior registration is required through this link:
The descent offered by EbroNautas for the Ebro Resilience, will offer a new perspective on the river, always different when it is known and enjoyed from the inside. It will deal with its reality as a river course and will talk about its environmental values, but also about the phenomenon of flooding in this section and the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project and the adaptation actions will be presented.
This activity is part of the social capacity building actions implemented by this project in the areas where it intervenes. The objective is to increase the knowledge of the riverside population about floods, promote participation in the forums where adaptation actions are defined, improve the action and knowledge networks of the municipalities themselves and thus enhance self-protection against the negative effects of floods.
In 2024 the popular descent took place in zone 2 of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, the Fuentes de Ebro – Osera de Ebro section (Zaragoza). In addition, they are added to other activities both sectorial (descents with the educational sector, guided visits with technical groups, activities with the participants in the co-creation groups), and general (guided routes, conferences…).
During the descent, in addition to clarifying concepts such as flood risk and enjoy the environmental values of the Ebro, the actions of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project for adaptation to floods in the middle stretch of the Ebro will be presented.
In this Zone 1 of the Project between Alfaro and Castejón, the key is the recovery of the fluvial space and the application of nature-based measures (reconnection of meanders, creation of relief channels, recovery of old river branches and enlargement of the fluvial space).
- Morphological adaptation and environmental restoration of the meander of La Roza, in Alfaro.
- Reconnection of river branches in the Alfaro wetlands.
- Actions foreseen for the morphological adaptation of the meander of El Señorío (Castejón) https://www.ebroresilience.com/plantaciones-en-la-margen-izquierda-del-ebro-en-castejon-y-valtierra-fase-1-de-la-restauracion-ambiental-de-el-senorio/