SIERRA DE BAZA

1. SIERRA DE BAZA Legislador: Luis Fernández Botánico: Miriam Bretones Geóloga: Tamara Fernández Técnico: Adrián Ortiz Gestor/Economista: Isa Pérez

3. History • in prehistory took advantage of the resources of a Mediterranean mountain as Sierra Nevada. this mountain is 7000 years old • livestock herders and their clothes were made and had plantations

4. FAUNA • The fauna is the own one of the ecosystems Mediterranean and has catalogued more than 100 species of birds, from which lads distinguish, very well represented, as the golden eagles, causeway or culebrera, goshawks, sparrow-hawks, falcons, ratoneros or kestrels, without forgetting birds of hunt as the red partridge, ringdove and bravía, or the thrushes, a few tireless winter visitors. • We cannot forget the most interesting entomofauna of insects, many of endemic them since it are the grasshopper and the beetle of you them will sink in, endemic species of the from Granada saws or the butterfly Advantage (Eucloe bazae), which has in the zone of the Pit of Advantage the only place of world location

5. FLORA • The Saw of Advantage has meadows of high mountain of humid type. They have beautiful landscapes of these meadows, together with his surroundings, since also a review becomes necessary to the numerous creeks, sources and springs that are born and pass for the whole geography of the Saw of Advantage, • The Nature reserve Saws of Advantage, which forms a part of the province Andalusia, the region biogeográfica richer in endemismos of Europe, is particularly rich in species of type, so that they are catalogued

6. Geology • The Saw of Advantage belongs to the great geological and orographical set of the Andalusian Mountain chains.. The Penibética was formed during the Alpine orogenia - characterized because it gave place to the creation of mantles of landslide-, between the Cretáceo Superior and the Miocene (90 to 13 million years).

7. Mountains • The Saw of Advantage is included inside the Andalusian mountain chains, which, since already we know, are the most southern mountainous set of the Iberian peninsula affected by the Alpine orogenia and which one divides in different zones, the Nature reserve being included inside the internal zone, and in turn inside the zone Andalusia.

8. Architecture • One of the major attractions, and also one of the most unknown, of the Saw of Advantage is his traditional architecture

9. Trails • The Saw Of Advantage has a great variety of paths that come to precious viewing-points. They are paths for persons' quite classes and very nice.

10. Economic Activity, Explotation And Project, • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: For natural spaces, in the Nature reserve Saw of Advantage three actions have been subsidized by an investment of 147.504 Euros. • EXPLOTATION AND PROJECT: It does not fit doubt that our saw had been already exploited and known in times previous to the Christian conquest of 1.489 by the Kings Católicos. They testify it more than at all the Moorish toponyms of Beneroso, Benajara, Ben acebada.... • For Project: Saw of Advantage has been outlined the incident that can have this mining and industrial exploitation in the landscape, fauna, vegetation, population humanizes and in the own environment.

11. Visitors Center, Loadgings And Refuges • The Nature reserve of the Saw of Advantage, to approximately 150 kilometres of the National Park of Sierra Nevada, is located in the zone oriental center, the province of Granada and possesses altitudes superior to 2.000 meters. • VISITORS' CENTER:Visitors' Center Farmhouse Narváez in the Nature reserve Saws of Advantage. The sum of his excellent accessibility and geographical central position with regard to other protected areas, the cultural elements that it possesses as his vernacular architecture, the possibilities of interpretation integrating his natural and cultural resources. • LODGINGS AND REFUGES: - Rural Lodging of The Fox. - Shelter The Floranes. - Narváez's Farmhouse. - Refuge Of The Canaleja. - Refuge Of The Cascajar. - Refuge of the Well of the Snow.