Three poplars big enough to be catalogued stand within 250 metres of each other on the Villava riverside, and this is the one the surveyors had nothing particular to say about. Its entry in Navarra's register reads: poplar of large diameter, over a metre, vigorous. The same sentence, word for word, describes another poplar a kilometre and a half away in Txantrea. So take the sentence for what it is. Over a metre across means over three metres round the trunk, and since the register stopped at the greater-than sign rather than finishing the measurement, that number is a floor and not a figure. Vigorous is the surveyor's word for a tree in good health in 2013. What carries it is the walk. Villava sits on the Arga upstream of Pamplona, on the valley road that pilgrims have come down for a thousand years, and the riverside path through it is flat, free and continuous, with the broken-limbed poplar 60 metres north and a third big one 240 metres beyond that. Nobody has dated this tree, nobody has measured the trunk properly, and no source but the register describes it at all. If you can add anything to that, we would like to hear it.
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Iruñerriko ibai-pasealekua (river walk), Villava / Atarrabia, 31610 Navarra
You can recognise it by position and little else, since the record says only that it is large and vigorous: it is the southernmost of the three big poplars on the Villava river walk, about 60 metres from the one with a dead limb.
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 60m north) and the Lombardy poplar at the north end (about 240m 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 7
- datosabiertos.navarra.es