Regional Natural Park of Monte Arci - Parks and other Protected Areas

Regional Natural Park of Monte Arci

(Italian: Parco Naturale Regionale del Monte Arci)
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Mount Arci is a mountain of volcanic origin, the late Pliocene, located in central-southern Sardinia, despite not having a great height (731 m maximum elevation), characterizes the landscape and history of the High Campidano.
From time immemorial (about 6000 years) was used obsidian for arrowheads and primitive weapons, there are several archaeological sites Nuragic and prenuragic.
Because of the rivers from the mountains were created on the downstream side of the largest expanses of marshes southwest of Sardinia, now largely reclaimed, which caused a high incidence of malaria has consequences on health and demographic and economic.
The Mount Arci was "attacked" in the last century by quarrying, mining, logging, military facilities for use by the shooting of Capo Frasca, from a wind farm never became operational and partly retired.
The area has so many aspects of natural interest (flora, fauna, geology), environmental (degradation and recovery of the territory), historical, etc..