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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón inaugurated this morning the Interpretation Centre of the Sierra paleontologic sites Quibo.

located in the municipal Abanilla Auditorium.

Enrique Ujaldón was accompanied by the mayor of the municipality, Fernando Molina, and Field Research director, Miguel Angel Mancheño.

The action is part of the Intervention Plan Paleontological Heritage Region of Murcia, whose objectives are the conservation and dissemination of collections of fossil sites and Murcia, and will help us understand "the changing nature and life in the south of the peninsula during the Pleistocene "through a field" exceptional "as Quibo, said the director general.

The new facility will forward the visitor "so enjoyable and educational, through information panels and audio-visual animations, the progress made in recent digs.

The center also has some of the most significant fossils found on the site.

Ujaldón also recalled that the region "is latching on to launch a major Center of Paleontology and Human Evolution, which will be part of the remains found in Quibo."

From the Department of Culture is seeking in this way, "decentralize these resources by facilitating citizens' access to goods that make up this heritage, providing visitors with proper guidance and interpretation", he added.

The center will know the history of the site, its geological setting, structure, project scientist and his team, as well as presenting the most significant mammal species identified so far.

The fossil site has provided more than 60 different species among vertebrates and invertebrates, some of them with a very complete fossil record and abundant.

Thus, Quibo becomes a reference in the European scene in the amount of debris found and fossil macaques praeovibos (ancestor of the ox).

The majority of identified remains poorly understood for animals that inhabited the southeast peninsula at the beginning of the Pleistocene, about 1,300,000 years.

Source: CARM