Palu' di Borghetto

Special Area of Conservation (SAC) - Special Protection Zone (SPA)

This is a wetland located at the bottom of the Trentino portion of the Adige Valley, outside the floodplain area of the Adige River.
It is an example of an environmental typology that has become rare. In particular, this is the last trace left by a 'paleo-river bed' that, in spite of the repeated attempts to reclaim it over the past decades, has maintained, at least in the composition of the phytocoenosis that characterises it, ample traces of its original layout.
The presence of a partial border formed by large willow and alder trees contributes to increasing the value of the area both from a purely landscape point of view and in relation to its ecological functionality.
It is precisely this last characteristic that is also increased by the spatial location of the wetland, positioned at a very short distance from the right flank of the wide valley, and by the thermophilic woods, represented by hophornbeam and hophornbeam in which the Scots pine grows abundantly, that cover it.
The anthropic influence on the area is fundamentally expressed, if we exclude the extensive vineyards at the bottom of the valley, in the presence of the Brenner and Abetone state routes and the adjacent Brenner railway line.