Cabaneros National Park, SPAIN.
Cabañeros National Park
Cabaneros National Park: Usefull information
Cabañeros National Park, The "Spanish Serengetti"
Cabañeros National Park has a rich fauna, that includes a great number of endemic species.
The lush pastures and mountain ranges are covered in forests and Mediterranean scrub. This landscape particularly beautiful, someone told that this is the "Spanish Serengetti". It is also the habitat of very important fauna, mainly consisting of birds (black vulture, Spanish Imperial eagle, Aegiptian vulture, golden eagle). Cabañeros is also a land of large mammals (45 species). It is easy to spot the red deer, wild boar or roe deer.
Cabañeros combines Mediterranean landscape with some areas of Atlantic vegetation; thus, for example, we find pastures, holm oak or cork oak groves and scrub. The fauna in the park is very rich, and boasts several endemic species. Here live almost 200 species of birds and large mammals.
The geology of Cabañeros & Montes de Toledo has one of the best representation of Paleozoic era, with important fossil record from Cambrian to Silurian.
You can visit the different towns on the vast La Mancha plain, where examples of artistic and monumental heritage abound and D. Quixote wind mills.
Usefull information:
National Park Office: Administration Center reservation and guided trails. Pueblo Nuevo del Bullaque (Ciudad Real). 926 783 297. Hours: June to September 9 to 21 from October to March 9 to 19, April-May 9 to 20.
"House os Palillos" Visitors Center: Road-Santa Quiteria Pueblonuevo. Hours: June-August 9 to 20, from September to October 9 to 19, from November to March 9 to 18 April to May 9 to 19. Presentation on the natural and cultural values of the Park, which includes video on a screen Cabañeros and watch a live webcam that shows a nest of imperial eagle, endangered species with only 230 pairs in the world, all in the Iberian peninsula, and 2 in the Park. It has a botanical and other ethnographic path, accessible to persons with reduced mobility, as well as services, parking, picnic area and an observatory with a view to the frog.
On the road to Santa Quiteria Pueblonuevo, 3 kilometers of Palillos' House, on the southern edge of the park, there is an observatory of white stork, and also depending on the season, lets look at groups of deer, cranes, vultures, etc ( access is free).
Visitors Center and Recreation Area of Abraham's Tower: CM-403 Highway (next to the dam of the Tower of Abraham). Hours: June-August 9 to 20, from September to October 9 to 19, from November to March 9 to 18 April to May 9 to 19. Small exhibition on Cabañeros and water. There is also a recreation area with tables and playground, parking, services and botany accessible path around the river bed of Bullaque. In the CM-403 road, near the reservoir of the Tower of Abraham, there is a spacious veranda overlooking the water body.
Zoorama: Retuerta. Hours: June-September 10 to 14 and 16 to 20, from October to May 9 to 14 and 15 to 18. Presentation on the natural values of Cabañeros.
Ethnographic Exhibition: Horcajo de los Montes. Hours: June-September 10 to 14 and 16 to 20, from October to May 9 to 14 and 15 to 18. Exhibition on traditional uses.
Ethnographic Exhibition: Alcoba de los Montes. Hours: June-September 10 to 14 and 16 to 20, from October to May 9 to 14 and 15 to 18. Exhibition-related utensils traditional uses.
Cabañeros National Park - Biodiversity Foundation (spanish). VIDEO.
Rural Accomodation & B&B in Cabaneros National Park and Toledo's Mountains
Las Navillas
Las Navillas, 6 people.
Full Rental.
La Fuente Gorda
Navas de Estena, 8 people.
Full Retal.
El Boquerón de Estena
Navas de Estena 17 people.
Full rental/Bedroom Rental.
El Cantueso
Hontanar, 6 & 4 People.
Full rental (2 houses).
Routes and Guided walks arround Cabañeros National Park
Discover whith Carlos Recio, biologist; the History, Nature and Geology of Cabañeros National Park and the Toledo's Mountains.
We offer guided walks, interpretation of the geology, botany and landscape Cabañeros and its surroundings, rutting deer, birdwatching, nature photography, wild cooking workshops ...
Exclusive activities!
Tel: 659 336 429.