Madrid, Mar 24 (EFE).- (Imagen: Pedro Pablo Pérez) In the far-flung reaches of northern Spain, where the regions of Burgos and Cantabria meet, lies one of the Iberian Peninsula’s most alluring landscapes: Las Merindades, an area comprising several towns and hamlets scattered across vast plateaus where grazing livestock roam near spectacular river canyons nestled between the snow-capped peaks of the Cantabrian mountain range.