Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park

The Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park is a herbal park location masking a Holocene volcanic subject additionally known as the Olot volcanic area in Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The volcanos, of which there are about forty in the park, are no longer energetic, with the ultimate eruption Croscat taking place approximately 11,000 years ago. However, the vicinity is still seismically energetic, and a huge earthquake in 1428 prompted harm to homes and twenty deaths in Barcelona, 90 kilometres 56 mi to the south. More current earthquakes in 1901 and 1902 triggered shaking but little harm.

The park covers 12,093.02 hectares, and consists of territory from 11 municipalities within the comarca of Garrotxa. The built-up areas of Olot, Santa Pau, Sant Joan les Fonts and Castellfollit de los angeles Roca are absolutely surrounded by way of the park. Including these urban regions, the populace of the park is greater than 40,000 human beings, and the financial improvement of the quarter is one of the targets of the park control, while trying to keep away from the harm caused by quarrying, urban sprawl and illegal waste disposal. Some 980.86 ha of the park, such as the first-rate preserved volcanic cones, are fully included as nature reserves.