Los Alcornocales Natural Park is a huge green area (170.000 ha) with one of the best preserved Mediterranean forests in Spain.

The cork oak forest lays over half of the Park’s surface. In the narrow valleys and top of the hills lusitanian oaks can be found together with relictic laurisilvas rainforest.

A large variety of animal species live in this Natural Park, mammals such as roe deer, deer, wild boar, fox and all kinds of birds including eagles, vultures and ducks. This Park is a strategic place to watch the migratory movement of birds from Europe to Africa over Gibraltar Strait and backwards.

Reptiles, amphibian and insects have got great importance in the Alcornocales ecosystem.

La Tagarnina is an official information point of the Natural Park and the owners will advise the guests how to discover the secrets of this wild forest.

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