The Nature Park
 

With more than 38.000 Ha. terrestrial land and 12.000 Ha. marino, this nature space, is one of the last protected paradise´s on the mediterranean coast.
It´s volcanic formation, and it´s special weather with more them 3000 hours of sun and less than 300 L. of rain each year and it´s magnificent beaches and it´s deep bottom marino. All of this makes the Nature Park of Cabo de Gata a pleasent place to have holidays and also to live in.

This land is mixed with o legendery history with castles, small churehes small fishermen villages, beaches, deserts, virgin cove´s and a infinite silence in the nature park with pure conditions..To love the nature aswell as to live and have fun. From trekking routes, horse routes, and bicycle routes. A ocean to practice canoing, windsurf, sailing as well as diving with oxygen bottle or snorkling, photographing, the sple, did nature of fauna and flora. In contact with the antigue culture of the mediterranean famer, fisherman and shepherdess. You are also invited too a healthy and energetic dimension far away from the polution and stress from the great city. Just one look at the great ocean and imacculad sky, the mountains with a great force, and also a magnificent climate all year through, summer, winter and autum. In winter season we have an ocean which is pale and a view which is green ochre, once again it becomes all green.

In spring it´s very colourfull full of flowers and all types of animals. In summer it´s refreshing with a ocean breeze. Cabo de Gata is a paradise all year round.
The Cabo de Gata Nature Park was declared by the Andaluz Goverment in 1987, it´s leagely protection has permited the literal mediterranean zone a singular preservation of speculation and urbanized degradition in the enviroment.

The strong personality of this spacious nature is determined by it´s volcanic origen, also extreme weather conditions of dryness temperatures as, of this the erosion of the ground is determined by a enormous richness of mineral resources flora, fauna, all together make a contrast scenery and a harmonic relation, tradionaly by man with a mediun of (craft man fishermen, saline and water wheel) All this makes the Nature Park of Cabo de Gata unique for tourisim and nature life studies. Even though the scientific levels can have two ecosystems very different, the mountain range and the paddels of salines with it´s sandy grounds. Never the less the visitors point of view is that the division can be expanded into three with a space represented by coles and beaches, together in a nautical mile. Also with protection purpose. (The coast).

Detailed caracteristics of each one:

  1. The mountainrange in spring is one of the most splendid, there is always a suprise because of it´s beauty. The volcanic cones strained with lava The palmetto, the wild goat, the esparto, royal owl, the eagle, the lizard, the sea urchin.
  2. The saline in spring and summer offer us a unforgetable performance little by little hundreds and thousands of birds (storks and flamencos), those birds give a special silhowete colour to the nature park. The mild climate is used by many of these birds during winter between the while mountains of salt and the puddles.
  3. The coast wild beaches and a unknown number of lost coles separated by enourmous volcanic rocks forming cliffs that looks like paintings, all of this in company of a transparent ocean inhabited by seagulls and many types of different birds. In a far distance you can see the delphins jumping, and the seals preparing there caves.

     

 


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