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View from the train

Enol lake

Landscape

Cliffs

Wild horses

Tarayes Forest Sunset

Tablas de Daimiel NATIONAL park located in the province of Ciudad Real with a protected extension of 5.410 hectares. This humedal, where the waters of the rivers Guadiana and Cigüela are mixed, it constitutes the heart of the humid 'La Mancha', forming a very extended ecosystem in other times in the central plain of the Iberian Peninsula: las fluvial charts. With Doñana, this is one of the main European spaces refering to aquatic birds, outstanding the 'red duck' (anagram of the park) but it is also the most sensitive and one more threatened of all spanish areas because its existence depends in great measure of external factors as it is the presence of water, being the demand of this for the surrounding agriculture, its main threat. More information (spanish)

Lagunas de Ruidera SINGULAR humid area of the Peninsula geography, formed by a staircase of fifteen chained lagoons formed in the limestone where the water of the river Guadiana in its source and its high course descend. Between the provinces of Ciudad Real and Albacete, it has the figure of Natural Park with 3.772 hectares. The vegetation of its borders is formed fundamentally for reed-maces, reeds and rushes, although there are still remains of the primitive vegetation of oaks. Black poplars and poplars, introduced recently, also settle in the border of the water. There are abundant fishing, pikes and carps, but perhaps its more excellent aspect are the birds that nest here: the lagoon eaglet, the red duck, the real duck and the somormujo wild duck. Mentioned by Cervantes in Don Quijote de la Mancha, they are samples of one Roman occupation and the Muslims built the castle of Roydera that serves of denomination of the lagoons.

Waterfalls More information (spanish)

View of the valley

Valle de Alcudia INMENSE valley of more than 100 kms. of longitude that gathers a great ecological wealth perfectly preserved. In this area subsists the most complete fauna of the mediterranean ecosystem. Some Iberian lynxes, wolves, foxes and mountain goats live in the sharpest places of these mountains; the black vulture, imperial eagles and the strange black stork cohabits with thousands of deer, boars and roe deer. After its reconquest by Fernando III, this valley belonging to the Military Order of Calatrava, would become the great Meadow Real of the Castilian migrating stockmen, gathering more than 300.000 livestock heads. Map Sierra Madrona

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