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National Parks of Spain

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In the Spain, there are 14 National Parks: <ul><li>They are places that are legally protected, to prevent human exploitation. </li></ul><ul><li>They are national parks because of : </li></ul><ul><li>Their beauty. </li></ul><ul><li>Their rich, diverse vegetation and fauna. </li></ul><ul><li>Their geomorphologic enclaves ( geomorphology is the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms; so these enclaves are places where you can see how different landforms have formed) </li></ul><ul><li>All this means that these parks are very interesting for scientific researchers. </li></ul>

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Aigüestortes National Park <ul><li>Located in Lleida, Cataluña </li></ul><ul><li>Wild mountain range in the Pyrenees, with peaks rising to 3,017m and nearly 200 lakes, many of them of glacial origin </li></ul><ul><li>Great variety of alpine vegetation </li></ul><ul><li>The fauna includes wild boar (jabalí), marmot (marmota), roe deer (corzo) and a variety of birds </li></ul>

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Aigüestortes (glacier landscape)

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Birds from Aigüestortes: The Western Cappercaillie (el Urogallo) y The Eurasian Treecreeper (el Agateador Norteño)

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Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park <ul><li>Location: Huesca, Aragón </li></ul><ul><li>Dominated by the biggest calcareous massif in Europe (a geologically distinct mass of rock or a series of connected masses forming the peaks of a mountain range) </li></ul><ul><li>Flora: oaks, birches, willows etc. </li></ul><ul><li>Fauna: Golden Eagle, Boar, Pyrenean Ibex, Royal Owl (búho) </li></ul>

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The Pineta Valley in the National Park of Ordesa y Monte Perdido

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Valle de Ordesa, Tozal del Mallo

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Brecha de Rolando y Cascada de Soaso

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In the fauna we can not forget the bearded vulture and the chamoix.

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Picos de Europa National Park <ul><li>Location: Asturias, León, Cantabria </li></ul><ul><li>The park is shared by Castilla y León, Asturias, and Cantabria. The highest point of the park is in Torre de Cerredo peak (2,648 m) and the lowest point is 75 m in the Deva River. So, there is a vertical drop of 2,573 m. </li></ul><ul><li>The geological features of the park show the effects of glacial erosion on the limestone massifs that form the Cantabrian Mountains. </li></ul>

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Picos de Europa, Asturias

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Picos de Europa, Lake Enol

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The Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park <ul><li>Location: A Coruña and Pontevedra, Galicia </li></ul><ul><li>Comprises the archipelago of the following islands: Cíes, Ons, Sálvora, Cortegada </li></ul><ul><li>The islands formed part of a mountain chain, which sunk into the ocean millions of years ago. </li></ul>

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The Cies Islands, Island of San Martiño

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The Cies Islands

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The Cies Islands

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The Ons and Salvora Islands

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Cortegada island

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These islands have a wide variety of marine vegetation

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And a wide variety of marine life

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These are other species of animals:

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Monfragüe National Park <ul><li>Location: Caceres, Extremadura </li></ul><ul><li>The most recently designated of the country's fourteen National Parks. From 1979, the area was protected as a natural park (a lower level of protection than national park status) until national park status was granted in 2007. </li></ul><ul><li>The park is north of Trujillo and runs from east to west along the valley of the River Tagus. </li></ul><ul><li>Includes a long mountainous ridge, through which the river cuts, creating an impressive rock face, called the Penafalcon, on the western side. </li></ul>

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Monfragüe National Park

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Fauna: Vultures, Eagles, Foxes.

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Cabañeros National Park <ul><li>Location: Northwest of Ciudad Real and Southwest of Toledo </li></ul><ul><li>An important reserve of Mediterranean plants and animals </li></ul><ul><li>The best and largest representation of a Mediterranean forest (with holm oak trees (encinas),cork oak trees (alcornoques), rockroses (jaras), heather (brezos), rosemary (romeros) etc. </li></ul><ul><li>There is also a large variety of protected birds, including: the Imperial eagle (águila imperial), Royal eagle (águila real), Black vulture (buitre negro), and Black stork (cigüeña negra). </li></ul>

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Parque Nacional Cabañeros: <ul><li>Localizado en los Montes de Toledo. </li></ul><ul><li>Constituye una importante reserva de vegetación y fauna mediterráneas. </li></ul><ul><li>Importancia del bosque mediterráneo con árboles (encinas, alcornoques…) y matorrales (jaras, brezos, madroños, romeros…) </li></ul><ul><li>También hay un buen número de aves protegidas: águila imperial, águila real, buitre negro, cigüeña negra. </li></ul>

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Mediterranean Forest

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Meadow of Cabañeros (Dehesa de Cabañeros)