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Salobrena & Costa Tropical weather as it relates to agriculture
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The Sierra Nevada Mountains rising to heights of about 3000 metres provide the protection for Salobreña and the Costa Tropical to enable produce to be grown in abundance. Many of the fruits grown in the fincas surrounding Salobrena and from Almunecar stretching into the Valle Tropical cannot be grown in any other part of Europe.
Protected from northerly winds, with year round average temperatures of 20ºC and 320 days of sunshine each year you will see on the roadside, orchards of nisporo, cherimoya, avocado, as well as the more "run of the mill" lemons, tangerines, oranges, pomegranate, almonds, cherry, and many other fruit producing vegetation.
Inland from the Costa Tropical, as you drive north into the Alpujarras it is easy to see the hall marks of the differing climates.
At different levels the vegetation and therefore the agriculture changes. At the lowest levels as you leave Salobreña or Motril along the banks of the Guadalfeo River are the tender fruit orchards shortly giving way to the more robust fruits and almond trees.
A little higher again and the almonds become intermingled with the olive growers and eventually to the Chestnut forests.
At each level agriculture is broadly based. Small holders to large producers work side by side growing all manner of vegetables for the markets of Northern Europe.
Vegetable products range through, various types of bean, tomatoes, red and green peppers, cucumbers, many varieties of lettuce and cabbage, carrots, aubergine, cauliflower, courgettes and many more general items.
The fertility of the Costa Tropical region is in large part due to the well organised supply of water. The water is by and large a product of the snow melt and rains experienced high in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Snow usually begins to fall in November and the main thaw begins in April each year although snow will continue to fall as late as the end of April.
Snow will be visible from the beaches of the Costa Tropical well into the month of May - skiing at he Ski Resort is normally in full swing until the end of May.
