Parque Los Alcornocales
Los Alcornocales Natural Park, with a surface area of approximately 170,000 hectares, is located on the western end of the Bética mountain range, and is the third largest protected natural area in Andalucia. It belongs to the province of Cádiz, apart from its northwesterly border which is located within the province of Málaga.
The Natural Park of Los Alcornocales and the Ronda Mountain Range constitute one of the four “source regions” of the Cork Oak (Quercus suber) in Andalucia, together with the Eastern and Western Sierra Morena and the Huelva coastline and the Bajo Guadalquivir. The Andalucian cork oak grove (alcornocal) consists of 245.000 hectares, equivalent to almost 50% of the subericola distribution within Spain and 10% worldwide. Amongst them, the Los Alcornocales Natural Park contains a cork oak grove of some 119.000 hectares.
