Our Nature

Our "Axarquia", a historical region of Malaga of Moorish origin, is rooted in its many white villages the most folkloric feelings and customs of the Andalucia Verde ... . Rich in all its extension in green fields, beaches, ravines, mountains, rivers and lakes that border the Sierra Tejeda - Almijara declared Natural Park, with an extension of 40.600 ha constitutes an impressive mountainous massif that forms a geographical barrier between the provinces of Malaga and Granada. Flora: Forests of Mediterranean black pines (Pinus pinaster) and Pinus nigra. Mediterranean scrubland of junipers and junipers. Holm oak, cork oak, gall oak and Pyrenean oak forests. Thickets of thorny camelephytes, mountain pyramids, maples, rowan, yew and sessile pine, barberry, tree honeysuckle and mountain rosaceae. Sub-desert scrubland and vegetation of sea cliffs, gleras and dolomitic sandbanks, as well as mountain rocky vegetation. Fauna: The best known animal in these mountain ranges is the mountain goat. It is worth mentioning the birdlife represented by the golden, Bonelli's, Bonelli's, booted and short-toed eagles, the peregrine falcon and the goshawk. There are a multitude of well marked trails that run through the whole of La Sierra.