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Located in the center of Spain, at the edge of Extremadura and Andalusia, La Mancha & Sierra Morena is one of the most outstanding natural territories in Europe.
Covering almost all the province of Ciudad Real (region of Castile-La Mancha) and the northern sides of the provinces of Jaen and Cordoba (Andalusia region), this fabulous hinterland host some of the best natural areas in the Iberian Peninsula, including 2 National Parks, 5 Natural Parks and numberless list of other protected natural areas that make it one of the Spain’s largest protected natural areas:
-Tablas de Daimiel (Ciudad Real province) 1.928 Ha.
-Cabañeros (Ciudad Real province) 40.856 Ha.
This vast area of protected natural spaces, with over 316,000 hectares just between National Parks and Natural Parks, hosts 310 species of birds, 45 mammals species and more than 1,200 plant species, regarding the best representation of Mediterranean Forest in Europe and the most remarkable Wetlands inland Spain.
This natural Region is part of Castile-La Mancha (Central Spain). Known worldwide as the birthplace of the fictional knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, this area is dominated by vast plains with crops of Olives, Vines and Grains. Its most typical picture, the Windmills of La Mancha, cannot hide the enormous diversity of natural areas that surround it. Thus, La Mancha is known for hosting the most important inland wet areas of Spain, the best-preserved steppe zones located at the South of the Iberian Peninsula, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Cabañeros National Park, the remarkable wetlands of Tablas de Daimiel National Park and the unique volcanic area of Campo de Calatrava, a place that, with the Vesuvius (Naples, Italy) is the only active volcanic area found at Continental Europe.
With almost all strictly protected territory, Sierra Morena contains 4 Natural Parks that, in their totality, represent the largest continued & protected natural area of the whole Spain:
Unique and little explored, a real experience that can be discovered reminiscing about the famous adventure of two English travellers of the early Twentieth Century in the ancient and wild land of Spain, Abel Chapman and Walter Buck “Unexplored Spain”.
This is a short list of the most emblematic species of European Nature that can be found in La Mancha & Sierra Morena
An extraordinary number of species that binds, to its uniqueness, the abundance and proximity that can be seen in our territory.
