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Sierra Nevada: A Natural Heritage of Biodiversity

Explore the geological origins, stunning landscapes, and diverse flora and fauna of Sierra Nevada, a National Park that is part of our collective natural heritage. Discover the unique biodiversity of this Biosphere Reserve, as well as its special protection for birds.

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Sierra Nevada: A Natural Heritage of Biodiversity

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  1. Index 1. Presentation 3. Situation map 4. Beginning and geographic formation 5. Geological places 7. The water 9. Biodiversity: flora and fauna

  2. Sierra Nevada is a fundamental part of our collective natural heritage. In 1986 it was included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve and three years later, in 1989 it was declared a Natural Park and finally in 1999 the declaration of the Sierra Nevada National Park was reached and its inclusion In the Network of National Parks, since 2002 is part of the Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA). SIERRA NEVADA

  3. Situation map Sierra Nevada is situated in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, in the southeast of Spain facing the Mediterranean Sea, occupying part of the provinces of Granada (in the western part) and Almeria (in the eastern part). It has a length of 90km approximately and a width that varies from the 40km in its western zone and not more than 25km in the eastern part. Aquí está Sierra Nevada

  4. GEOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF SIERRA NEVADA (I) Its formation was product of the push, approach and collision of the African plate against the Iberian massif (tectonic plates, let's say that are the parts that form the puzzle of the terrestrial crust).

  5. Geological landscape

  6. Higher peaks 3·482m Mulhacén 3.395m Veleta 3.371m Alcazaba

  7. Laguna de la Caldera Laguna Larga Laguna de Lanjarón Laguna de Vacares Water In S.Nevada Laguna de la Mosca Laguna de Río Seco Laguna del Caballo Laguna Culo de perro

  8. Las Acequias Since ancient times, the most effective system to regulate the waters of melting was the derivation by irrigation ditches of the water of the rivers to the zones of culture. Another ancestral and curious system of regulation of the waters of melting are the acequias of careo, that is not known if they are of Roman origin or Hispanic-Muslim.    By means of these ditches, the water was taken to specific areas, where the water slowly filtered, soaking the slopes, or emerging in springs, in such a way as to avoid the loss of surface water by evaporation, supplying the areas Low in the driest season, through irrigation ditches. In the past they were also used to irrigate crops of high altitude (potatoes, rye) and to grow pastures for cattle, perhaps of the latter comes its name, since it is synonymous with pasture, pacer. The ditches have always associated a path for acequiero, so that the path and monitor its proper functioning.

  9. LA BIODIVERSITY: FLORA Y FAUNA

  10. FLORA Sierra Nevada has 2,100 vascular plants cataloged, of which 80 are exclusive of this territory, are the endemismos. FAUNA Unlike the plant world, animal species have the ability to move and avoid places that are favorable to their vital development. However, in Sierra nevada we exclude birds and some mammals, the rest of the fauna can not exert important movements to safeguard against inclement weather.

  11. Plant Life

  12. Fauna

  13. Antonio Manuel Gutiérrez Terrón

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