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Sierra Escalona
Sierra Escalona
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Sierra Escalona

The Sierra Escalona and Dehesa de Campoamor is a natural area located at the southern tip of the province of Alicante, on the border with Murcia, a zona which is characterized by filing a Mediterranean native vegetation in a good state of preservation, formed by pine forests with scrub typical Mediterranean highly developed coscojas, mastic, palm hearts, and so on.

The Sierra de Escalona and Dehesa de Campoamor covers a total of 4.697,6 hectares of the municipalities of Orihuela, San Miguel de Salinas and Pilar de la Horadada. This is a group formed by mountains, pine forests, scrub and crops that make him a natural area most important of the Commonwealth, which deserves the highest degree of protection and therefore becomes the number 23 of natural park of the Comunidad Valenciana.

In the park are both rain-fed crops such as irrigation - carob and olive trees, gardens and fruit-with a large area of Aleppo pine forest cover. In the pine forest understory plants are typical of these environments: mastic (or kills Charneca), palm hearts, rockrose, and aromatics like rosemary and thyme.

The quality of this ecosystem and its proximity to other natural areas (salt from San Pedro del Pinatar, Natural Park gaps in the Mata and Torrevieja, and coastal marine) makes this area keep important prey densities, such as rabbits and carnivorous mammals as the cat, with one of the best stocks in the southeast, gineta, badgers, etc..

 
The future Natural Park Sierra de Escalona

The future Natural Park of the Sierra Escalona and Dehesa de Campoamor houses one of the best populations of wild cat (Felis silvestris) from the Iberian peninsula, as has assured the counselor of Land and Housing, Esteban Gonzalez Pons.
Also, the area is one of the main areas of dispersion perdicera eagle on the Peninsula, so that, according Gonzalez Pons, "one can say that the Sierra Escalona and Dehesa de Campoamor stands out for its rich fauna."

The cat is classified as "special interest" in the National Catalogue of Threatened Animals, while the Bonelli's eagle is regarded as "Vulnerable", both in the catalogue as Nacuinal in Valenciano, "which obliges the Council to protect these species, and in this regard the declaration of Natural Park will be a major breakthrough. "

Together these species in the Sierra de Escalona are other birds of prey like owls, described as "special interest", by the National Catalogue, the eagle and culebrera Busard buzzard. As far as mammals, are also represented La Gineta and badgers.

The proximity of the mountains to wetlands of great interest as the Parc Natural de las Lagunas de la Mata and Torrevieja, the Salinas de San Pedro or reservoir Pedrera, dramatically enriches the presence of waterfowl.

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Vegetation of the Sierra Escalona

Abundant vegetation

The vegetation of the mountain is abundant and varied, highlighting the presence of many endemic species or special interest as the cuchilleja (Bupleurum gibraltaricum), Jarillo (Helianthemum Almeria), Jarillo head cat (felis caput-Helianthemum), cantahueso (Thymus morodei) fine and thyme (Thymus hyemalis).

Precautionary Measures

Until the declaration of Natural Park, governing in the area and in their area of protection measures with the aim of which can not be carried out actions that modify or deteriorate substantially, irreversibly, territorial and environmental realities.

So, are subject to prior report, mandatory and binding of the Ministry of Land and Housing, permits, licenses and any type of administrative procedure laid down in Article 28, paragraph 1, letter b) f) of Law 11/1994 of Natural Areas of Valencia.

In the Sierra de Escalona can access through roads AV-3011, AV-3501 and A-354 to perform a bicycle routes, we can cross on foot across the Vereda de la Sierra de Escalona, former track livestock that can take into the Port of Rebate.

Sierra Escalona

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