The cork oak forest of the Arnoia Nature · Arnoia, Ribeiro, Ourense Image of Arnoia, not of the place itself. More than a thousand hectares of cork oak cover the slopes of the concello, a mass of cork oaks exceptional in Galicia which takes advantage of the warm microclimate of the lower Miño of Ourense. It coexists with pine woods on the north-eastern side. Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (User:Lmbuga) (CC BY 3.0) What to see and do in Arnoia