A Lombardy poplar is usually a narrow column, the exclamation mark of the roadside. One of these two is close to four metres round. The register records a pair at this point on the river path at Erripagaña, both of them large and both vigorous, and it takes the trouble to measure them separately: 120 centimetres across for the bigger trunk, 90 for the smaller. Converted, that is roughly 3.8 metres around the first and about 2.8 around the second. Both figures come from diameters rather than a tape passed round the trunk, so read them as close rather than exact. They stand together, which is why they are one entry here rather than two: you walk to one place and both are in front of you, the thick one and the merely large one. The setting is the Arga on its way through Burlada, on the continuous riverside walk that runs from Pamplona out through the comarca towns. Free, open, flat, and about as easy a tree visit as this site has. What nobody has written down is how old either of them is, and the only description of them anywhere is the 2013 register survey. If you know this pair, or have measured them, tell us.
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Iruñerriko ibai-pasealekua (river walk), Erripagaña, Burlada / Burlata, 31600 Navarra
You can recognise them by being two poplars standing together, one noticeably thicker than the other, the bigger close to four metres round and the smaller nearer three. They stand on the river path at Erripagaña, in Burlada.
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 704534922, highway=footway).
In Erripagaña, Burlada, 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 Burlada, 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.
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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 4
- datosabiertos.navarra.es