RURAL LANDSCAPE

A rural landscape is an area that have been modified by humans to obtein products from nature. This image shows an inland landscape, possibly located at Castilla y León, in the Meseta.

The picture shows a relief characterized by plains divided by roads and paths. The vegetation in this area is scare with some bushes growing by the sides of the paths but there is a lack of trees and excesive vegetation.
Moreover there aren´t any sources of water although there migth be irrigation cannals. According to all these, the climate of this location could be described as mediterranean inland with extreme temperatures, cold winters, hot and dry summers with a rainfall average of 300-400 mm annualy.

The predominant use of the land is for agriculture, and a secondary use of the area could be livestock raising as there is a lot of space available to do this practise. In addition, the landscape shows an openfield pattern which consists on a system for the management of the arable land. Each of them belongs to a different person and they aren´t divided by any type of fence or hedge. They also follow a regular shape and size, and makes the use of bigger machines easier.
We observe that the fields are specialized in dry crops by the color of the land and the climate of the area, it may be grow up  wheat or cereal.

Some of the problems of the rural areas are the lack of services: health, education, communication...
We can also mention the depoblation of rural areas due to the industrialization and opportunities supplied by bigger cities.
Among the measures that can be applied to deal with this deficiencies we can mention the introduction of a school, and a hospital in order to improve education and health, but also introducing new ways of communication such as buses in order to facilitate people moving from one place to another.