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Font Roja Natural Park

Alcoi/Alcoy, L'Alcoià, Alicante

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Font Roja Natural Park

Nature · Alcoi/Alcoy, L'Alcoià, Alicante

The Carrascal de la Font Roja Natural Park, between the municipalities of Alcoi and Ibi, in the comarca of L'Alcoià, was declared on 13 April 1987 by the Valencian Generalitat and covers 2,298 hectares. Its highest point is the summit of the Sierra de Menachaor, at 1,356 metres. Above 1,250 metres grows a deciduous forest of Portuguese oak, ash, maple, yew and whitebeam, while elsewhere holm oak forest predominates, with plantations of Aleppo pine. Notable fauna includes the Bonelli's eagle, the peregrine falcon, the eagle owl and the griffon vulture, as well as wild boar, genets and wildcats. In the 18th century the snow trade was carried on there, of which several snow wells remain.

Photo: Gabriel Barrachina (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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