We craftsmen sell with normal margins. The western section of Navarra consists of medium-sized mountains opening out to the Basque coast and the French Atlantic Pyrenees. Relatively populated, the valleys of this area also have a certain number of industrial activities currently undergoing modernisation. The eastern section encompasses Upper Navarra where we find the Pyrenees. This part is sparsely populated and people there earn their living almost exclusively from cattle and sheep farming.
Desertification is a real threat.
However, the two sections share the same identity and face common challenges. The result was an analysis of the area's situation and the elaboration of a coherent strategy, based on the wishes and ideas expressed by nearly 200 socio-economic actors of the mountains. But we have been fine-tuning our strategy constantly since 1995. We are now trying to adapt this more 'advanced' strategy to the particular situation of each comarca. Tourism is the field where networking began first.