Amid the silts and the claystones

 We are in the Pielagos region.  Renedo is really Renedo de Pielagos, we will start the day wafting through Quijano de Pielagos and end the day in Barcenilla of the same.  None of these places are sufficient to trouble wiki over much.  The municipal website is more forth coming.





Quijano, we are told, is the home of 263 souls.  It’s saints days are Saint Roch [16th August] and Saint Columba [31st December].  The website adds, helpfully, ‘Quijano is located on a Pleistocene terrace and on Holocene alluvium that extends through the valley carved out of Wealden materials (silts, clays, sandstones).’








Barcenilla goes wild on St Gregory’s day [9th May] and Saint Martin [11th November.’  Again, the website is very fulsome ‘Barcenilla, in the flattest area, is situated on alluvium and quaternary terraces designed by the Pas as it passes through, which have been skilfully used by man for cultivation as this is the area with the most suitable soil conditions for this. Perfectly regular rows of cornfields alternate with green meadows on the banks of the Pas, only interrupted by the parcel paths that run through the crops. Dense eucalyptus plantations close the complex to the west, although they already belong to the neighbouring centre of Oruña, with which it also shares the salmon reserves of La Cantera and Castalañon.









We are passing through the Club de Aeromodelismo Pielagos.  Both reviews are five stars and Antonio states ‘Club full of good and interesting people, lovers of aerial sports, it has an excellent runway in the middle of a natural paradise.’






We will end the day off the CA-233.  Enjoy the back lanes.













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