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Walking tour : Liron Island - 3.4 mi

in Breuil-Magné
5.3 km
1h 40min
Easy
  • A tour through the heart of the Charente marshes! A well-preserved natural heritage site forming a mosaic of wetlands. Welcome to Île du Liron, a remarkable and protected hillside.

  • In the heart of the Rochefort marshes lies a landscape slowly transformed by human activity, home to a rich variety of flora and fauna. Information boards help visitors to better understand this unique landscape.

    Along your walk, you will see:
    - European mink: A small aquatic mammal, it was long hunted for its fur and is now virtually extinct. A tiny population remains in the
    Rochefort Marshes Natura 2000 site, which is still preserved thanks in particular to the presence of a mosaic of...
    In the heart of the Rochefort marshes lies a landscape slowly transformed by human activity, home to a rich variety of flora and fauna. Information boards help visitors to better understand this unique landscape.

    Along your walk, you will see:
    - European mink: A small aquatic mammal, it was long hunted for its fur and is now virtually extinct. A tiny population remains in the
    Rochefort Marshes Natura 2000 site, which is still preserved thanks in particular to the presence of a mosaic of habitats: wet meadows surrounded by hedgerows, thickets and woodland.

    - Ile du Liron: It is one of the 10 ‘remarkable slopes’ identified in Charente-Maritime. A slope is a sloping area generally situated on the flanks of a
    small hill or on the edge of a plateau. On the Liron hillside, there is a type of grassland known as ‘calcicolous’, meaning that it grows on subsoils composed of limestone. These areas cannot be cultivated because their soils are dry and stony and the slopes are often steep.
Points of interest
19 meters of difference in height
  • Start altitude : 2 m
  • End altitude : 2 m
  • Maximum altitude : 4 m
  • Total positive elevation : 19 m
  • Total negative elevation : -19 m
  • Max positive elevation : 1 m
  • Min positive elevation : -1 m