The steppe is a biome which comprises a flat territory, herbaceous vegetation, typical of extreme weather and low rainfall. These regions are far from the sea, with continental arid climate, a big difference between summer and winter and rainfall that does not reach 250 mm per year. Low herbs and shrubs predominate. The soil contains many minerals and low organic matter; there are also areas of the steppe with high iron oxide content, which gives a reddish hue to the land.
In the steppe insolation is direct as in the desert and by the scarcity of trees, animals are exposed to strong variations in temperature and humidity, circumstance that has favored the formation of habitual diggers. There are many species, including the Badger.
This steppe was poorly known by Willkomm, so, in the map that illustrates his work on the steppe of Spain and coastal regions, he regards Dalias as positioned on the seafront and with lower Adra latitude, so that Dalias is eight kilometers from the sea and its latitude is superior to the Adra. However, it is very commendable that this steppe is mentioned and design by Willkomm in 1852, when modern authors of 1912 have left it in oblivion. Adra in field of current training, near a Pliocene Speck; Alqueria, Berja, Dalias and Vicar in the Triassic. The plains of Almeria, coastal steppe extension, where you can find Roquetas and the salt mines that extend up to near Punta Encinas, from Punta Elena are not unique to this part of the coastal steppe that binds with the steppe of Almeria, forming with it a whole continued on the southern slope of the Sierra de AlmerÃa. The big river which empties into the Mediterranean Sea, near Adra, and has several tributaries, is the Chico Creek and passes through Dalias. The river that flows near Roquetas and passes by Vicar, and several streams, water this steppe region of Almeria, whose surface spreading, in area the explored so far, passed 260 square kilometers.
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