The community region of Teruel He has taken another step in promoting his paleontological tourism with the value of four new deposits with dinosaur footprints. These are enclaves located in Ababuj, Aguilar del Alfambra and Galve, which can already be visited thanks to a new performance developed by the Dinópolis Foundation.
The new enabled deposits are known as Santa Ana (Ababuj), Aguilar 1 and Aguilar 3 (Aguilar del Alfambra) and Cantalar (Galve). In all of them, hundreds of dinosaurs fossils have been found that lived between 145 and 150 million years ago, in the transition between the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. Among the traces identified are fingerprints of sauropods, stegosaurus, ornithopods and theropods.
One of the most striking findings is found in Ababuj, where sauropod traces of up to 80 centimeters in length have been discovered, indicating that the animals that left them could have reached 20 meters long. Also highlight the footprints of stegosaurios in Aguilar del Alfambra, which allow to deduce gregarious behaviors, and the new footsteps found in Galve, another of the localities with important paleontological tradition in the province.
To facilitate the visit, each of these deposits now has signposted routes of low difficulty, with journeys that range between 1 and 3.4 kilometers. Throughout the routes, informative panels, directional arrows and explanatory trails have been installed, designed by the Dinópolis Foundation team, with scientific content adapted to the general public.
This action is integrated into the Tourist Sustainability Plan at destination that the Community Region of Teruel executes since April 2024, within the recovery, transformation and resilience plan and with financing of European funds Next Generation-EU. In addition, it is part of the Dinoexperience regional project and complements the existing offer under the umbrella of “The Dinosaur Footprints Road”, also driven by Dinópolis.
