Interpretation Center of Quibo Reservoir will release what life in the region 1.3 million years ago.

The action part of the Intervention Plan Paleontological Heritage whose objectives are the conservation and dissemination of archaeological sites and collections of fossils from Murcia.

The Director General of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets, Enrique Ujaldón, inaugurated the Interpretation Center of Paleontology Reservoir Quibo Mountains located in the municipal Abanilla Auditorium. Enrique Ujaldón was accompanied by the town mayor, Fernando Molina, Director of Research and Reservoir, Michelangelo 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 deposits and Murcia, and will help us understand "the changing nature and life in the south of the peninsula during the Pleistocene "through an offshore" exceptional "like Quibo said the CEO.

The new facility will take the visitor "on an enjoyable and educational tour through information panels and audio-visual animations, the progress made in recent digs. The centre also has some of the most significant fossils found on the site.

Ujaldón also recalled that the Autonomous Community "is bound to launch a large Centre of Paleontology and Human Evolution, which will go 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 a proper guidance and interpretation", he added

The centre will present the history of the site, its geological context, the structure of science project and the team as well as presenting the most significant mammal species identified so far.

The site has provided more than 60 fossil species, both vertebrates and invertebrates, providing an abundant, very complete fossil record. Thus Quibo has become a reference on the European scene by the number of remains of fossils found and macaques praeovibos (ancestor of the ox).

Most of the identified animals remains were little known to have inhabited the south eastern peninsula at the beginning of the Pleistocene about 1,300,000 years ago.