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The maps that explain why Castilla y León have become the “zero zone” of forest fires

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The fires are a pressing problem every summer, but in the midst of the heat wave that shakes peninsular Spain, the problems derived from fire grow Without giving us breath. One of the areas most affected by fires is the northwest quadrant of the peninsula. Something that we can verify in a series of maps that show us the present and future risk of fire. Fire risk, from satellites. The Risk Management Service of Copernicus, the land observation system of the European Union, shows us on a map the Areas with greater risk of forest fires In the continent. The map shows the FWI fire meteorological risk index (Fire Weather Index), distinguishing areas with low, moderate, high, very high and very extreme risk. The map allows us to visualize the risk we face: a good part of the Northern Plateau, in addition to areas of the Cantabrian, Pyrenees, Galicia and other areas present in index greater than 2.5, which implies very extreme risk. Southern Europe, and beyond. The map covers not only peninsular and Balearic Islands, but also the rest of Europe and surrounding areas. In fact we can see in it that the very extreme risk situation extends not only to northern Portugal, also to most of the center and south of France. Other areas in this situation can be found in the Balkans, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Austria and Hungary. Important anomalies are also indicated in Nordic countries, such as Sweden, Norway and Finland. A problem that will go worse. The Copernicus map covers this week together, from day 11 to 17. However we can resort to other maps that allow us to see the evolution of risk during the next few days, Fire risk maps of the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet). What these maps show us is not an invitation to optimism. Aemet fire risk forecast evolution on August 14, 15 and 16. State Meteorology Agency. The stain extends. The extreme risk today focuses on Andalusia, Extremadura, the west of Castilla y León, and the Pyrenees, as well as areas located in Galicia, Basque Country, Murcia and other communities. However, tomorrow this area under extreme risk will expand both in the peninsular northwest and in Extremadura, the Basque Country and Murcia. On Friday and Saturday the “red spot” will continue to grow. On Saturday, only specific areas on the coast and in mountainous areas will be fought from the very high or extreme risk. The devastation of a fire. In addition to risk maps, Copernicus also allows us to visualize the ravages that active fires have already caused. Example of this It is the fire of El Arenal, in Ávila, which has already affected almost 1,800 hectares of surface. In Xataka | In the middle of the fire, there is something that Spanish firefighters are very aware: the 30-30 rule Image | Copernicus / Aemet

In León there are small villages that are finding a peculiar phenomenon: thousands of “ghost tourists”

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In the world there is good and bad touristsrespectful tourists and disrespectfulclean and others capable of converting places such as Everest either The Fuji In authentic stercolera, but much less common is what some peoples of the province of León are living. His municipalities are finding a kind of “Ghost Tourism”a drip of thousands and thousands of travelers that nobody has seen or heard or housed, but that in theory they have visited the town. Or at least he assures it A study of the INE. Multiplying the census by 24. Carbajal sources It is a town of León located about 50 minutes by car from the provincial capital and surrounded by hectares and hectares of cultivation. It doesn’t usually sneak into the news, but Monday León News He dedicated him A broad article which explains a peculiarity of the people: in summer there are few municipalities in which the population shoots more for tourism. According to A study INE experimental that measures the flow of tourists from the position of mobile phones, between July and August 2024 the town received 1,826 tourists. Many do not seem like many, but it is that INE himself acknowledges that in the Leonese town there are barely registered 76 people. That is, when the heat arrives, the summers multiply by 24 the municipal census. Next to nothing. “It’s a mockery”. Such data would be compressible if Carbajal sources had a natural park, an old fortress, parties known throughout the community or some other claim that explains that avalanche of visitors, but the City Council itself itself Recognize that this figure of 1,826 tourists (464 in July and 1,180 in August) is difficult to explain … and even more difficult to assume. “It is a burial,” nods The mayor of the town, Carlos de León Saluds, in León News. Similar opinion, Ana María Ortega, former mayor and councilor, Explain That one thing is that the influx of visitors increases in July and August for the people who returns to the village or visit to their relatives and a very different one that the data is triggered in an exorbitant way. “In summer you can triple the population, but multiply by 24 the number of inhabitants with veraners and tourists cannot be.” So … what happens? To understand that mysterious “Ghost Tourism” the first thing is to go to the prine sources. The data of the 1,826 tourists leaves a new “Experimental Statistics” of the INE that resorts to the signals of the mobiles to calculate different metrics related to tourism: the place of origin of foreigners arriving in Spain, the destinations that visit the Spaniards when they leave the country and the movement between communities, provinces and municipalities. The study has been prepared for a few years and always talks about the same: “Tourists.” If we consult the “internal tourism” data and more specifically the flows of “Interprovincial tourists” Residents in Spain, classifying the results by municipalities, the surprise arrives: in July of last year Fuentes de Carbajal received 646 and in August 1,180. In total 1,826. The question is therefore … how are those figures calculated that collide the mayor and the former mayor of the people? Mobile and antennas matter? The response is given by INE in The technical file From the survey: the data is related to the position of mobile phones and are obtained thanks to the collaboration of the country’s large operators. The approach is interesting and promising, but implies certain challenges. “The location of mobile phones is estimated from mobile phone antennas”, collects the institute itself: “This implies that the location of a mobile is not established with total precision, and the error depends on the concentration of antennas.” In summary, the more mobile antennas, the greater precision. Unraveling the mystery. The INE’s ability to analyze the data is also limited. The records on mobile location are anonymous and processed each operator, so the institute receives only aggregate data and in tables, without option to examine loose values. In rural areas it is also found that the low density of the network conditions the type of ‘cells’ with which it operates. By statistical secret, the institute also hides certain data. With that information about the Ortega table Slide that the balance of carbajal sources (which is so adjusted to what is perceived in the people itself) may be due to technical issues, such as coverage or that for some reason the data of other municipalities are added to those of the Leonesa Villa, thus blurring the real photo. Near Fuentes de Carbajal there are other villas with a balance of zero visitors. In Xataka we have already addressed the INE to ask him about that apparent mismatch. Is it the only case? No. León News Informs other equally striking, although none reaches the level of carbajal sources. In San Millán de los Caballeros, for example, the INE registered 1,648 tourists in July and in August 1,602, which adds 3,250. Again they may not seem like many, but it is that the town has 191 inhabitants registered. The same occurs in Izagre, of 137 residents and who according to the statistical institute receives almost 2,000 Veranians. “We don’t have great parties, just four performances during the summer,” remember the mayor of San Millán. “There are two campsites close to the people, but they are in the municipal terms of Valencia de D Juan and Villamañán.” Nor does the Izagre councilor achieve to understand everything that happens: “On central summer days, with the holidays, between 150 and 200 people can be reached in each of the villages, but reaching the 1,987 veraneantes in those two months cannot be.” Images | Zed Mendez (UNSPLASH)Google Maps and Wikipedia Via | León News In Xataka | It is increasingly easy to see from the road a crop that had never been dominant in Spain: the pistachio

A driver has been arrested for overloading his Seat León with 700 kg. The traffic fine is the slightest of its problems

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The punishment for breaching one of the sections of the Traffic Law in its article number 76 is clear: 200 euros of fine. It is what corresponds to someone who circulates with “vehicles with the poorly conditioned or with a danger of falling.” The relative to article number 77 of the Traffic Lawin which it is stated that “circular with a vehicle that breaches the technical conditions that seriously affect road safety” is a very serious infraction, punishes drivers with 500 euros of a fine. Any of these two articles, we believe, can be applied to those who drive a car loaded with 700 kg of luggage The problem is that this luggage is stolen cable. Or that the car is not even yours. In that case, you are before the youngest of your problems. When you have a much more serious problem than a traffic fine Because this way the driver of a Seat León circulated, arrested by the Civil Guard in Pilas (Sevilla), as he collects ABC. The detainee was intercepted by the Civil Guard by spotting a very loaded vehicle. When they wanted to stop him, the driver fled on foot to try to mislead the agents who finally ended up stopping it. And the driver knew perfectly that the youngest of his problems was overweight inside his car. The car intercepted, the agents discovered that distributed in the trunk and the rear seats carried 700 kg of stolen cable. Obviously, the intention was to resell copper. But, in addition, the car appeared in the records In the name of a deceased personwhich clearly demonstrated the intention of going unnoticed. The subtraction of the telephone wiring was located between Jabugo and Castaño del Robledo (Huelva) so the driver managed to cover a part of his escape. In total, it is estimated that the detainee stole 1,250 meters of telephone wiring that would have tried to move inside the vehicle. To know how much weight we can carry in our car, we must go to the technical file. In it we will find the data of the maximum authorized mass (MMA), which is forbidden to overcome because we will be putting our safety and the performance of our vehicle at risk. There is no concrete figure of how many kg we can load in a car but, yes, the maximum figure that we can find in a MMA is 3,500 kg because above this weight we could not circulate with a driver’s bnea B that this license is designed exclusively for cars. Photo | Civil Guard In Xataka | How to take the luggage without receiving the 200 euros of the DGT fine

Delete the stops in Castilla y León

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215 minutes. That is the time that it should take a high -speed train to travel the distance that Vigo separates from Madrid from this month of March. It is not a figure that we have said randomly. It is the promise in which Oscar Puente reaffirmed At the beginning of this 2025, since since the arrival of the Avril there was talk of connect Madrid and Vigo In just over three and a half hours. The same day in which it also took advantage of confirming that the number of places offered would be expanded by 125%. The problem is that those 215 minutes remain, right now, a promise. What are real are the delays and breaches that have accumulated since In May 2024 The first trains will arrive at the railway line. The first day, the train that promised to reduce travel time in 15 minutes was exceeded half an hour above the scheduled. The second day, andl delay went above two hours. Then, the Vigo-Madrid had to be done in four hours, with the promise that time should be filed over time. It improved … little. In August last year Just one in five trains that covered the journey arrived at the expected hour. And we are already in March 2025 and there is no trace of those 215 minutes desired. So Abel Caballero, mayor of Vigo, has had a proposal: why not eliminate stops in Castilla-León? A direct Madrid-Vigo In case Spain was devoid of storms in recent days, Caballero decided to generate his own on the afternoon of March 19. That day a meeting had been organized between Mayor Gallego and Álvaro Fernández Heredia, new director of Renfe. After the same, Caballero exposed what had been talked there. The mayor of Vigo said that he had presented some alternatives to Fernández Heredia to reduce until three hours and 45 minutes the time that Madrid separates from his city. The proposal was clear: Eliminate stops in Castilla-León. He did not explain which but he said the following: “The current travel time on one of the tours is very elongated by an excessive number of stops in the area of ​​Castilla y León, a area already close to Madrid that currently has a very important coverage of trains that come from all over the north and the rest of Galicia on high -speed paths” The words were collected by the local medium Atlantic.net. The proposal, according to Caballero, had had “very good reception” and Fernández Heredia would have been “very receptive.” And, of course, the winds unleashed the storm. Renfe has left the gentlemanensuring that the stops that are currently in Segovia, Medina del Campo, Zamora and Sanabria High Speed ​​will not be suppressed. Before, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, president of Castilla-León, had already shown his anger crossing the intentions of “intolerable”, they collect in The Spanish. The crossing of statements, of course, has been felt throughout the day of March 20, with cross messages between members of the PSOE (to which Caballero belongs) and the PP (to which Mañueco belongs) both Galicians and Castellanoleonese, as well as the different political parties that give voice to all the affected provinces, such as Zamora or Segovia. The conflict, however, exemplifies the wounds that have opened with the expansion of high speed east of the country. One of those wounds is found in Zamora. Already in May 2024 they collected in Vigo lighthouse that a possibility that was on the table to reduce the times was to skip the stop in the city “that will have 12 trains a day per sense despite having 60,000 inhabitants.” Another key places that lengthens the trip in Madrid-Vigo is its forced passage by Santiago de Compostela. No direct connection between Vigo and Orense (just over an hour by car) is obliged to the high -speed train to deviate 70 kilometers to cover the entire journey and reach Vigo. This alternative has been on the table since 2001 but Bridge avoided last year Give a concrete date of when the project could be ready or, at least, if at any time it would be approved. Although Madrid-Vigo has focused all eyes for obvious reasons, confrontations on the occasion of high speed are common in Spain. In the Basque Country, it is not only that high speed arrives with decades of delayat this time there is a strong confrontation to choose the path that must connect the “and Basque” with high speed from Pamplona. Everything seemed aimed with a step by Vitoria but a Alternative by the Gipuzkoan town of Ezkio/ITSASOby the Sierra de Aralar. The connection in AVE Madrid-Lisboa has also been disputed. Among the latest discussionsthat of the Ministry of Transport, led by bridge, With the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and the municipalities of Toledo and Talavera de la Reina, in relation to whether a new train station should be built in the first case or if the tracks should be buried in the second. But these have been the last fringes because the cities of Badajoz and Salamanca They have been faced for years in a discussion that has recently been a folder when Bridge confirmedagain, that the journey between Madrid and Lisbon would pass through the city of Extremadura. Photo | Namor88 and Pedro Vicente Seoane Prado In Xataka | Spain has its own Express Orient and is an ode to luxury: the exclusive, nineteenth and very expensive transcontábrico

The mountains needs maintenance, but doing so is expensive. In León they have opted for four -legged firefighters and hooves

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Environmental care does not always require large investments or technologies to the last. Sometimes, you just need controlled grazing to prevent problems in electrical networks. Everything may sound very confusing, but a pioneering project has found a great solution. Short. As the saying would say, it is better to prevent than cure, and so is the Redeia project in the Leonese mountain that uses sheep, cows and horses to control the vegetation under high voltage lines. The “Network Pasture” initiative It has joined eight livestock farmsthrough its subsidiary Red Eléctrica, where more than 3,300 animals distributed in different areas of the province, such as La Robla, Villamanín, Pola de Gordón, La Ercina and Cistierna. Grazing. In the Leonese mountain, the project covers 65 hectares and 28 kilometers of electric lines between Soto-Robla and Velilla-Robla. Grazing, which includes a total of 2,900 sheep, 370 cows and 35 horses, improves local biodiversity and reduces the risk of forest fires. This initiative is a clear example of how traditional livestock practices can contribute to the protection of nature. In depth. “Network grazing” is part of your Comprehensive Impact Strategywhich seeks to generate value in the territories where their infrastructure are present, solving social and environmental problems of the communities. Besides, Its objective is Integrate extensive livestock with electrical infrastructure, using cattle to perform vegetation debrote tasks. This approach not only contributes to solving environmental problems, but also socially through employment creation and support for local farmers. Latest technologies. In this project an innovation has been included and it is the use of drones for livestock management. Not only does it improve the efficiency in livestock management, but also offers new opportunities for the adaptation of livestock to the needs of the 21st century. Previously. The initiative was launched in 2022 in Casares de Arbas (Villamanín), where cattle were started to control the vegetation under 3.5 kilometers of lying, about nine hectares. Since then, the project has grown, extending the grazed surface and increasing the number of participating farmers, with the collaboration of the Agrovidar company to manage the project. According to The data collectedthe grazing areas have registered an improvement in biodiversity that other areas where grazing has not been carried out. This translates into a greater presence of arthropods, butterflies, pollinators and floral units. In addition, cattle have reduced biomass volume and modified the type of vegetation, thus reducing the risk of forest fires. Expansion. The expansion of the initiative is taking shape in several locations in the province of León. It is also planned to be extended in the future with more livestock and more grazed areas, which could further benefit biodiversity and reduce the risk of fire in other areas of the region. Image | Unspash Xataka | Australia compared 1,700 sheep and discovered something unexpected: those that graze between solar panels of better quality wool

James Rodríguez scores the first goal with Club León in the MX League: “It’s a big pride”

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After your debut in the MX League with Club, León, James Rodríguez He scored his first goal in just his second match. On day 3 of the Clausura Tournament, the Colombian converted from the 11 steps. At minute 50 of the meeting before Bravos de Juárezthe steering wheel executed a penalty charge that managed to convert after a lack of goalkeeper Sebastián Jurado. After the game, James He praised the team’s performance and directed attention to the meeting against Chivas del Guadalajara Next Tuesday. “An important victory today, now we have to think about three days that we have the game against Chivas On Tuesday. You have to do things well too and well, the most important thing was that it won today and that helped us more, ”he said. “Well, happy, the most relevant thing is to help this team, I want to help my colleagues play well and of course also to win,” he added. “It is a big pride, but hey, I think there is still a lot, we are on a good way and we have to continue along this same path. They want to play each supercompetitive game and that is what we all want, ”he concluded. James He was the best matching player with 78 % passes precision. He created two opportunities, completed two dribbles, stole six balls and intercepted one. Club León He won the victory by the minimum thanks to the goal of James. With the victory, they managed to reach six points, while Juarez He stayed with four units, for day 4 of Clausura 2025 of the MX League, the Esmeralda box will face Chivas and Brave will do the same before Santos Laguna. Continue reading:· How much will James Rodríguez charge for playing with Club León in the MX League?· James Rodríguez’s father highlights his quality: “It will be impossible to match”· James Rodríguez tells how he was close to signing for Manchester United (Tagstotranslate) Club Le \ U00f3n (T) James Rod \ U00edguez (T) MX League

James Rodríguez’s father is happy with his role in León

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Wilson James Rodríguez, father of Colombian footballer James Rodríguez, is very excited to be able to see him inside the Club León of the MX League after his recent signing that allows him to maintain his active career in one of the most iconic Aztec football teams and with the aim of conquering the title of the Clausura 2025 tournament. During an interview offered for Mediatiempo, James’s father spoke of how valuable it is for him to see how James followed his steps within international football to become one of his country’s most iconic figures in recent years. “I congratulated him because it is a city (León) that has a lot of competitive football and the truth that makes me happy, I’m glad because he has continuity. James Rodríguez, a humble, simple person, a worker like all professionals, but very good. He is an excellent person, ”he said. “I think that in football that is born with one. When you see the children crawling, when they see starting, they begin to grow and start, that is born with one, but I did not think it was going to be such a big boy, so at the level. They are things in life, ”he added. Rodríguez Mr. coffee hobby. “The mentality. That positive mentality you have when you play with the selectionwhen he plays in the teams, that I believe that he does things professionally very well. He is a very structured person, very disciplined, ”he said. “Well, it’s a pride, a very big pride, because times are going to spend again to have one like James. James Rodríguez, my son. I also played football, but he set a difference. I think it’s impossible to match, ”he said. Finally, Wilson said he spoke with James after his debut with the León Club in the Clausura 2025 Tournament of the MX League to be able to congratulate him for the work he did; He was also concerned about the role he usually has with the Colombian team and the responsibility of taking them to the 2026 World Cup. “Very well, I congratulated him. Those are players that make a difference. The team entered and changed. He made a difference. Yes sir. It is the great hope of Colombia for the qualifiers, for the World Cup. It has always been, it has always been, and he is a good leader, a positive leader, ”he said. “It should not be easy to always load with responsibility, right? I say, he likes to play, brand difference, but he always knows that he is the obligor, because he sees the fansunderstanding that it is a collective sport, but that the fans see it. It must be complicated, ”he concluded. Continue reading: –Football matches today, live: time and TV of what you can see this Friday, January 24–Luka Romero is willing to play with the Mexican National Team–Fernando Guerrero tells new details about his retirement (Tagstotranslate) James Rod \ U00edguez

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