Global warming in this area

This is what the area looked like before the Romans came here


I live in the Catral area which once was part of the Med the earth is full of sea shells and fossils

visit the museum in guardamar , youll see this map

I remember years ago watching a U.K. tv series by the botanist, David Bellamy. One 6 weeks series was on Spain, how it had been a very wooded, forested country but the need for ships, to supply the Amada, decimated the woods and forests, which were never replanted. Hence so many barren, desert like areas. To help the coastal plains eg Murcua region, Franco built a canal taking water from the Sierras to irrigate the areas allowing agricultural industry ti grow. This canal can still be seen, especially as it runs through the out skirts of .Totana.

The museum in Elche is great, he has some wonderful 3D maps .

Hi Willow where is the museum in Elche please. Thank you

Not global warming, more likely the formation of the dunes at Guardamar slowed the flow of the Segura out to sea
which meant it dumped all the silt it was carrying as it slowed.
Global warming will mean rising sea levels which will eventually put it back to how it was.

The advancing sand dunes were threatening to swallow Guardamar town, so they employed a forest engineer, Francisco Mira, to solve the problem and over 600,000 trees were planted to form the forest that is there now.
Interesting read about it here: https://guardamarturismo.com/en/dunes-and-pinewoods/