Landscape
An overwhelming and varied landscape that offers the best of nature and leaves no one indifferent.
The mountains of Guara
To the north, the impressive Sierra de Guara, crossed by the Flumen, Guatizalema, Vero, Mascún and Alcanadre rivers. Its geological and hydrological structure and erosion over the centuries have carved narrow and deep ravines crossed by the rivers, forming waterfalls and siphons as well as vertical walls, caves, valleys and conglomerate mallos such as Vadiello and Salto de Roldán.
Spectacular forests
On the northern slope we find extensive masses of gall oaks, beech forests, firs and black pines and on the southern slope we have large olm oak forests, black pines, boxwood, kermes oaks and junipers, being the scrub one of the most important plant formations in the entire park. In the highest areas it is even possible to find the snow flower or Edelweiss, introduced, apparently, by some French mountaineers.
Piedmont. Centuries-old olive trees
In the piedmont, named somontano in Spanish, the landscape is dotted with olm oak forests and aromatic plants such as thyme, rosemary and lavender mixed with crops of vines, almond and olive trees, most of which are centuries old.
Vineyards and almond trees
Agriculture has always developed in which olive trees and vineyards predominated. During the last century, the best land was devoted to cereals and almond trees, replacing olm oaks and olive trees, however progressively more land is being dedicated to the cultivation of vines, which, although it has developed since the second century B.C. with excellent wines, it has taken off during the twentieth century, favoured by the birth of the "Somontano" Designation of Origin in 1984.
Thousand-years-old trees
In Somontano, it is also possible to walk through Mediterranean forests, such as the Carrascal de Lizana in Barbuñales or contemplate monumental trees such as the olm oaks in Otin, the Nadal olive tree in Colungo or the thousand-year-old Lecina olm oak.
