One of this poplar's three main limbs is dead, and the bark has come away from parts of the trunk. Navarra's surveyors catalogued it as a singular tree anyway, and wrote the damage into the record rather than around it: a poplar of large diameter, three main branches, one of them dead, partially debarked. That description is worth more than a tidier one would be. Of the three big poplars on this stretch of the Villava riverside it is the only one you can identify from the path without counting your steps, because the others are recorded as nothing more than large and vigorous. A three-limbed crown with one bare limb in it, and pale wood showing through where the bark has gone, is a silhouette rather than a category. The register gives the trunk as over a metre across without finishing the measurement, which puts it over three metres round at the very least and probably a good deal more. It stands on the public path along the Arga through Villava, free and open, flat walking from Pamplona. The survey behind all of this dates from 2013 and no other source describes the tree, so the dead limb and the bare patches are thirteen years old as facts. Nobody has recorded an age either. If you walk out and see how it is doing now, tell us.
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Iruñerriko ibai-pasealekua (river walk), Villava / Atarrabia, 31610 Navarra
You can recognise it by its three main limbs, one of them dead and bare, and by the patches where the bark has come away from the trunk. It stands on the river walk in Villava, the middle of the three poplars on that stretch.
Free, on the public riverside footpath (Iruñerriko ibai-pasealekua / Parque Fluvial de la Comarca de Pamplona), open at all times. Confirmed as a public footway via OpenStreetMap (way 42943052, highway=footway), the same path segment as the southernmost of the three (about 60m south) and the Lombardy poplar at the north end (about 180m north).
In Villava / Atarrabia, one of Pamplona's comarca towns along the Arga; reachable on foot along the riverside path from Pamplona, or by Pamplona urban bus (TCC network) to Villava, then a short walk to the riverbank.
The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from. The story was written with AI from these sources, and readers who know the tree correct it.
- In the official register: Arboles Singulares del Parque Fluvial de la Comarca de Pamplona (Gobierno de Navarra, SITNA), no. 35300014 tree 6
- datosabiertos.navarra.es