Tabernas Desert, Tabernas, Almería, Spain
Situated between the Sierra de los Filabres in the north and the Sierra de Alhamilla in the south-east, an exhilarating and overwhelming sight to behold and an area famous for the creation of Hollywood’s most famous Spaghetti westerns. An area of badlands, this natural desert landscape is a geological marvel that has been millions of year in the making.
This area was actually, at one time, covered by the ocean, until the Sierra Alhamilla mountain range, thrust upwards isolating the Tabernas area from the sea. An inland saltwater lake was created, which, diminishing over time, left the original seabed and remaining mineral deposits exposed and open to the elements.
The end result of the sedimentation, or settling process, being a terrain consisting of calcium carbonate, mudstone and sandstone, highly susceptible to erosion. Over time weather conditions and environmental circumstances have created this astounding and unusual territory. the desert ravine in the Tabernas badlands
Today, the parched landscape receives a considerably high concentration of sun exposure per year, with summer temperatures constantly exceeding forty degrees. The rainfall is infrequent yet torrential when it occurs, often creating seasonal flash floods in the normally dry river beds, these downpours have carved out the dramatic trenches and tubular holes that give the desert its unusual moon like effect.
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