Cabo de Gata - Níjar Natural Park is the first marine-terrestrial Natural Park of Andalusia.
Cabo de Gata Nijar is one of the coastal strips of greater beauty and ecological wealth of the western Mediterranean and an extension of 34,000 has, to which there is to add a marine strip of one mile in width (12,000 has).
Cabo de Gata is the dead ground marine-terrestrial of greater surface and ecological relevance of all European Western Mediterranean.
Besides the Cabo de Gata has other categories of protected areas: A Special Protection Area for birds [SPA (1989)]; Wetland of International Importance [Ramsar (1989) The Salinas del Cabo de Gata]; Biosphere Reserve (1997); Specially Protected Area Mediterranean Importance [SPAMI (2001)]
In this web you will find information about the area, distributed from our interactive map, which will connect with the locations in Natural Park and its beaches, environmental information, its history, and a rich supply of skilled accommodation and lodging, Hotel, Little Hotel and Youth hostel , Campings, Rural Lodge, Apartments and Houses,and to eat a selection of Restaurants.
The charm of the Mediterranean peoples coupled with a privileged climate make the Cabo de Gata a benchmark for an unforgettable holiday. Agua Amarga is a town that holds part of its fishing tradition, but has become a great tourist center of the coast. Its central nucleus urbanizing environment to a small square. There is a good range of accommodation with rural charm and algúnos small hotels. Almadraba of Monteleva is small fishing village and salinero around the beach its name. Very close to this pedanía include Salinas de Cabo de Gata. San Miguel de Cabo de Gata belongs to the municipality of Almeria. Many of its inhabitants are still engaged in fishing craft, which makes it an ideal place to enjoy fresh fish and varied.
The Village of Carboneras is outside the protection of the Natural reserve of Cabo de Gata, but not its surroundings. The Town are some hotels. Los Escullos is a small core fishing and tourism located in the creek its name, under the hill next to Las hermanicas and Playa del Arco. Hortichuelas is a small town located to 2 km. The coast, in a spectacular valley views and still preserves the traditional air of the Mediterranean peoples. Isleta del Moro is a small fishing and tourist center near Los Escullos, with a huge rock and the island which it is named. Fernan Pérez is one of the few municipalities in the interior of the national park, and still retains the rural charm of old, small white house, church, school.
The municipality of Níjar is the fourth largest in Spain, although the village is excluded from the protection of the park. Las Negras is a beautiful corner of spectacular fishing and environmental geology.
Pozo de los Frailes is a Neighborhood close to the coast and included in the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata, with a small old quarter and a Ferris wheel restored. San Jose de Níjar has replaced its fishing activity for a sustained tourism development and consistent with the aesthetics and forms of environment and has become the tourist center of the park. It offers a host of services, hotels, hostels, restaurants, dive centers, etc. Rodalquilar is a mining town home located in a valley of unusual beauty, closed with a circular by the mountains and hills mining, and no activity. Today is the administrative capital of Natural Park. There are some lodges, houses, apartments, and hotels.
Beaches of Cabo de Gata
One of the greatest incentives for tourism in the park are its beaches. You will find the lonely creek, the beach large, the naturist beaches and coves, or lonely corner that you can only access by sea or with a wonderful excursion.
Natural Park Enviromental information
The ecological importance of Cabo de Gata is in its origin, nature volcanic, semi-arid climate, sea-earth character.
Habitats of interest: steppe Mediterranean dune formations, salt marshes, coastal cliffs and seagrass beds.
Of the terrestrial fauna of Cabo de Gata we classify it in two different habitats: pasture and steppe zone.
In its more than 80 km of coastline, marine fauna is a dominant factor.
We distinguish
three different biotopes, sand grounds, rock and prairie posidónia ocean.
The birds in the Natural Park are also a factor characteristic, and can distinguish three environments: pasture or marshy, the area of orchards and the steppe zone.
The Flora of Cape Gata-Níar characterized by high humidity climate subárido with middle and high evaporation and expoción solar and volcanic soils and emphasize low setting, which determine the presence of a weak vegetation can take this pluviodad and vegetation soil.
Volcanic Complex Park Natural Cabo de Gata was formed in the period between 15 and 16 million years and is the party emerged from an extensive magmatic gray area that stretches along the Alboran Sea area.
One of the biggest attractions of the natural park for nature lovers can be found under the sea. So you provide a map of the dives in Cabo de Gata, courtesy of Isub San Jose.
You will also find a list of interesting links on ecology and environment, associations working for a better world. And an interactive map with connections to
Protected Areas in Almeria. Andalusia.
Some Interesting Visits Albardinal. Botanical Garden. Rodalquilar Las Amoladeras, visitor center
Atention. Be careful with the nature.
The Natural Park Cabo de Gata- Nijar is a protected area
of greatest interest in Almeria.
If you visit this site, don't forget that the information you can get here, you must use it with the sensitivity it deserves the environment and the beings that live in.
With your cooperation we will be able to maintain the beauty of this protected area.
History and Culture of Níjar and Cabo de Gata
Cabo de Gata was via step of multiple cultures that left their mark on this place.
We invite you to learn a little more about the History of Nijar
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