Temática: Landscape

Landscape heritage

Heritage-approved visible spaces and material objects; the heritage of artistic and literary images accumulated since the invention of the landscape. It also includes the set of charms and customs that result from the natural qualities of places and the adaptations made by local culture based on the nature and character of the place.

Peneplain

1. A landform that typically covers large areas and, due to erosion, presents a gently undulating surface with little difference in elevation between valleys and interfluves. Composed of ancient and eroded materials, its formation corresponds to the end of the erosion cycle, which is completed with the total destruction of the landforms. […]

Landscape planning

Actions that have a particularly pronounced prospective nature with a view to improving, restoring or creating landscapes.

Landscape

1. A portion of territory that exhibits similar morphological and functional characteristics as a result of the action and interaction of natural and human factors. It corresponds to the surface of geographic space that is visible to the human eye at intermediate scales, although it is also used in classifications of its modalities on a global scale. The […]

Natural landscape

It is that which has not been modified by humans and is the result of the interaction of natural elements and factors.

Rural landscape

The visible result of a geographic area dominated by agricultural activities, although other uses and developments (e.g., forestry, agro-industrial, extractive, residential, leisure, tourism, environmental, etc.) that interact with the natural space may also be developed. It generally refers to the countryside, a non-urban space.

Urban landscape

It is the visible expression of the elements, structure and processes linked to the city.

Paramo

1. A more or less elevated and horizontal surface with poorly developed, rocky, or stony soil, unsuitable for agriculture. It is usually capped by a limestone stratum more resistant to erosion. Associated with the countryside, it is characteristic of the northern subplateau. 2. A flat, exposed plateau, the remnant of a sedimentary plain that has […]

Molar

Steep mound with a flat summit and small dimensions.

Landscape quality objective

For a specific landscape, the formulation, by the competent public authorities, of the aspirations of the populations with regard to the landscape characteristics of their environment.