The register gives this tree four words and no numbers: a Lombardy poplar of large diameter. Every other tree catalogued along this river carries a measurement of some kind, a height, a diameter, at least a greater-than sign. This one carries none, so we are not going to put a figure on the trunk. Large is what the surveyor wrote and large is what you get. The form is the useful part. A Lombardy poplar grows as a tall narrow column rather than a spreading crown, which is what makes rows of them visible across a valley from a long way off, and a thick one is a column that has been standing a while. It stands at the northern end of the Villava riverside path, about 180 metres beyond the middle of the other two catalogued poplars on that stretch, on the flat free walk that runs along the Arga from Pamplona out through the comarca towns. Nobody has recorded an age for it, nobody has recorded a girth, and no source other than the 2013 register survey describes it at all. This is the thinnest record of the eight trees on this river. Anything you can add, we will take.
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Iruñerriko ibai-pasealekua (river walk), Villava / Atarrabia, 31610 Navarra
You can recognise it by its shape, the tall narrow column of a Lombardy poplar rather than a spreading crown. It stands at the north end of the Villava river walk, about 180 metres beyond the middle of the other two poplars there.
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 broken-limbed poplar (about 180m south) and the southernmost of the three (about 240m south).
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 5
- datosabiertos.navarra.es