List of national parks of Spain

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Map showing the distribution of the national parks in Spain as of 2021.

There are sixteen national parks in Spain: eleven in the Iberian Peninsula, four in the Canary Islands and one in the Balearic Islands. Twelve of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain have national parks. Canary Islands has the most with four, followed by Andalusia with three, and Castile-La Mancha and Castile and León with two each. There are five autonomous communities that have no national parks: Basque Country, La Rioja, Murcia, Navarre, Valencian Community.

since 2017Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". about 15 million people visited Spain's national parks, with Teide accounting for about 28% of all visitors. The second most visited park was Picos de Europa (17%), followed by Ordesa y Monte Perdido (13%). The least visited parks were Cabrera Archipelago (0.81%) and Cabañeros (0.72%).[1] With more than 2.5 million visitors in 2013, Teide was the most visited national park in Europe that year, and sixth most visited in the world.[2]

National parks

Name Photo Province Autonomous community Designated Area Description Ref
Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici File:San Mauricio lake.jpg Lleida Catalonia 1955 Script error: No such module "sort". Consists of two valleys (Sant Nicolau and L'Escrita) located between the rivers Noguera Pallaresa and Noguera Ribagorzana. Comaloforno is the highest mountain, with a peak at Script error: No such module "convert"..[3] [4]
Cabañeros File:Dehesa cabaneros.jpg Ciudad Real and Toledo Castile-La Mancha 1995 Script error: No such module "sort". It is the best and largest surviving area of Iberian Mediterranean forest, with an enormous variety of plant species. Part of the Montes de Toledo system of mountain ranges. Rocigalgo, at about Script error: No such module "convert"., is the highest mountain in the park.[5] [6]
Cabrera Archipelago File:Port de Cabrera.jpg Balearic Islands Balearic Islands 1991 Script error: No such module "sort". Consists of the Balearic island Cabrera, that was isolated from Majorca during the last glacial period 12,000 years ago, and the surrounding archipelagoTemplate:Update inline.[7] [8]
Caldera de Taburiente File:Caldera de Taburiente.jpg Santa Cruz de Tenerife (La Palma island) Canary Islands 1954 Script error: No such module "sort". A huge volcanic caldera covered by thick forest of Canary Island Pine and Canary Islands Juniper, being home of several endangered species and the astronomical Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. [9]
Doñana File:Wetlands in Donana.jpg Huelva and Sevilla Andalusia 1969 Script error: No such module "sort". The park is an area of marshes, shallow streams, and sand dunes in Las Marismas, the delta where the Guadalquivir River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It has a biodiversity that is unique in Europe, including thousands of European and African migratory birds, and endangered species such as the Spanish imperial eagle and the Iberian lynx. [10]
Garajonay File:Gomera.jpg Santa Cruz de Tenerife (La Gomera island) Canary Islands 1981 Script error: No such module "sort". The park provides the best example of Canarian laurisilva, a humid subtropical forest that in the Tertiary covered almost all of Southern Europe. Many of the species of flora and fauna are endemic to the Macaronesian islands, the Canary Islands or La Gomera, and the Garajonay forest harbors a rich biota of understory plants, invertebrates, and birds and bats, including a large number of endemic species. [11]
Guadarrama File:Circo y cima de Peñalara1.JPG Madrid, Segovia and Ávila Community of Madrid and Castile and León 2013 Script error: No such module "sort". The only Iberian examples of "high Mediterranean mountain" harbouring more than 1,280 different species of plants and animals. [12]
Illas Atlánticas de Galicia File:Illas Cies Praia.jpg A Coruña and Pontevedra Galicia 2002 Script error: No such module "sort". It comprises the archipelagos of Cíes, Ons, Sálvora and Cortegada. The park covers a land area of 1,200 ha (3,000 acres) and a sea area of 7,200 ha (18,000 acres) [13]
Monfragüe File:Salto del Gitano, Parque Nacional de Monfragüe.jpg Cáceres Extremadura 2007 Script error: No such module "sort". Three main habitats predominate: Mediterranean woodland and scrubland, dehesas, rocky areas and water bodies (rivers and reservoirs). More than 200 vertebrate species breed in the park, many others hibernate or can be seen on passage during migration to other latitudes. Birds are the group of vertebrates with the greatest abundance of species and individuals. [14]
Ordesa y Monte Perdido File:Valle ordesa.jpg Huesca Aragon 1918 Script error: No such module "sort". High mountain park in the transition between the Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean regions, glacial erosion formations and high biodiversity. [15]
Picos de Europa File:Lamedo I.jpg Asturias, León and Cantabria Asturias, Castile-Leon and Cantabria 1918 Script error: No such module "sort". Covers the mountain range Picos de Europa (part of the Cantabrian Mountains) and consists of three massifs: Central, Western and Eastern. Torre de Cerredo, at Script error: No such module "convert"., is the highest mountain.[16] [17]
Sierra Nevada File:DSCN0427.JPG Granada, Almería, and Málaga Andalusia 1999 Script error: No such module "sort". The park has fifteen peaks over Script error: No such module "convert". altitude, including Mulhacén, the highest mountain in the Iberian Peninsula, with a peak of Script error: No such module "convert"..[18] [19]
Sierra de las Nieves File:Sierra de las Nieves.jpg Malaga Andalusia 2021 22,979.76 ha The true hallmark of this territory are the Spanish fir forests, a botanical relic of the Tertiary conifer forests, endemic to the mountain ranges of Malaga and Cadiz, and which have in this protected natural area their largest area of distribution in the world with nearly 2,000 hectares. [20]
Tablas de Daimiel File:TablasDeDaimiel1.jpg Ciudad Real Castile-La Mancha 1973 Script error: No such module "sort". The park is the last surviving example of floodplain wetlands located in the arid central part of the Iberian peninsula.[21] [22]
Teide File:Teide Tenerife3.jpg Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife island) Canary Islands 1954 Script error: No such module "sort". Atop the highest mountain of Spain, this national park, also a UNESCO world heritage site, features volcanic mountains, various plant species including the fragile species such as the Canary Island cedar and the Canary Island pine, and a few birds and animals. [23]
Timanfaya File:2008-12-19 Lanzarote Timanfaya.jpg Las Palmas (Lanzarote island) Canary Islands 1974 Script error: No such module "sort". The only National Park in Spain which is entirely geological, representing recent and historical volcanism in the Macaronesian Region. The last volcanic eruptions occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries.[24] [25]

See also

References

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