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Abanilla have a Reservoir Interpretation Center Sierra Paleontology Quibo in Abanilla, action that is part of the Intervention Plan Paleontological Heritage Region of Murcia.
The center, which will be located in the municipal Abanilla Auditorium, whose operation is scheduled for late 2009, has a budget of 44,000 euros.
The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, noted that "the center will be one of the most interesting for the evolution of nature and life in the south of the peninsula during the Pleistocene."
The new facility will send the visitor an enjoyable and educational, through information panels and audio-visual animations, the progress made in recent digs.
In addition, the center will have original fossils "with the objective that every municipality in the region has interpretive centers and museums tell their story," said Ujaldón.
In addition, the CEO explained that since the Ministry of Culture and Tourism is seeking in this way, decentralize this culture by providing citizens access to the goods part of this heritage, providing visitors with proper guidance and interpretation.
Also disclose the history of the site, its geological setting, structure, project scientist and his team, and the presentation of the most significant mammal species identified so far.
The fossil site has provided more than 60 different species among vertebrates and invertebrates, some of them with a very complete fossil record and abundant.
Quibo is a reference on the European scene in the amount of debris found and fossil macaque praeovibos (ancestor of the ox), and the majority of identified remains poorly understood for animals that inhabited the southeast peninsula at the beginning of the Pleistocene, approximately 1,300 .000 years.
The objectives of the plan that is part of this action are the preservation and dissemination of deposits and fossil collections of Murcia.
Source: CARM
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