Cascata Scopalacqua
Cascata Scopalacqua
Around we see a lush vegetation amongst which also holly trees. On the top of the waterfall, among the quartzarenites rocks we can find the Osmunda Regalis, locally calleed "A filici francisi". This is a water fern that is considered a biogeografic peculiarity; the Scopalacqua valley (like another close itinerary of the madonie called "Gorgonero" and realized by the park authority of the Madonie), represents one of the few places in Sicily where this plant is found. The waterfall of vallone Scopalacqua, part of the area of the Mandarini stream formation, offers a very suggestive show. It has a drop of about 40 metres eroding quartzarenites rocks strongly inclined which have the precise tectonic significance, this, in fact, represents a normal fault flat that we can follow for quite a distance.
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