Navarra's register describes this tree in eight words, and then uses the same eight words for a different poplar a kilometre and a half away in Villava: a poplar of large diameter, over a metre through, vigorous. That is the entire official record of it. No height, no age, no story, and nothing that would tell it apart from its neighbours if you were standing under it. What the phrase does give you is a floor. Over a metre of diameter means more than three metres around the trunk, and because the register stopped at the greater-than sign rather than taking the measurement, the real figure is probably larger than that. It is a big riverside poplar on a river that grows them. It stands on the Magdalena stretch of the Arga in Txantrea, on the riverside path that runs the length of the valley through Pamplona, free and open at all hours. The plane tree with the old electrical cable brackets on its trunk is about 90 metres along the same path. Only the register describes this tree, and its survey dates from 2013. Nobody has recorded an age for it, and nobody has taped the trunk properly either. If you have walked out and looked at it, tell us what you found.
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Iruñerriko ibai-pasealekua (river walk), Magdalena, Txantrea, 31004 Pamplona
You can recognise it only by where it stands, because nothing in the record separates it from the other big poplars here: on the Magdalena river walk in Txantrea, about 90 metres from the plane with old cable brackets on its trunk.
Free, on the public riverside footpath (Iruñerriko ibai-pasealekua / Parque Fluvial de la Comarca de Pamplona), open at all times. Same public footway confirmed via OpenStreetMap (way 816826057, highway=footway) as the London plane on the same stretch, about 80 metres away.
In the Magdalena area of the Txantrea district, Pamplona; reachable on foot along the riverside path, or by Pamplona urban bus (TCC network) to Txantrea/Rotxapea, 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 8
- datosabiertos.navarra.es