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Los Alcornocales Natural Park, CĮDIZ

The cork oak groves cover an area of 170,025 hectares, stands between the provinces of Cadiz and Malaga and is the worlds largest cork oak forest.

The park is made up of a series of low mountainranges which contain more sandstone than limestone, unlike the neighbouring Sierra de Grazalema, where the reverse is true, and, as the third largest park in Andalusia, is one of the regions most important protected areas, stretching as far as the Straits of Gibraltar. Its interior houses Cortes de la Frontera National Game Reserve. Rhododendrons, ferns and laurels grow in the shade. In the south are the canutos, river valleys in which species of vegetation from the tertiary period still survive.

The park is an important centre for ecological, rural and educational tourism due to its immense archaeological, cultural, historical and monumental value. It successfully combines compact patches of protected cork and gall oaks with cork extraction, big game and cattle farming.

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Towns of los Alcornocales

Cįdiz: Alcalį de los Gazules, Algeciras, Castellar de la Frontera, Los Barrios, Medina Sidonia, Tarifa y Jimena de la Frontera.
Mįlaga: Cortes de la Frontera.

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