Gestión de playas y dunas en las costas de Asturias y Cantabria (NW España)

Résumé

Beaches and dune fields of the Asturias and Cantabria (Cantabrian coast) which were directly and indirectly anthropized detailing some regeneration solutions are described in this paper. Only few beaches were affected, with some examples of urban beaches (San Lorenzo and Laredo); other beaches were regenerated with alocthonuos sandy sediments to the original sands and the Salinas-El Espartal beach where sedimentologic and mineralogically characteristics were maintained; finally, few new beaches were created. Dune fields were extensive and differently transformed, even distroyed. Only some of them were regenerated, consisting in the morphologic dune reconstruction, revegetation of specific plants, isolated enclosures, and woody observatory and roads: Salinas-El Espartal, Cuerna, Liencres, Somo, etc