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Los Alcornocales Natural Park

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Los Alcornocales Natural Park (in Spanish, Parque natural de Los Alcornocales) is a natural park located in the south of Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia; it is shared between the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga. [1]

74 relations: Africa, Alcalá de los Gazules, Alder, Algar, Andalusia, Algeciras, Andalusia, Arcos de la Frontera, Atlantic Ocean, Benalup-Casas Viejas, Benaocaz, Biodiversity, Castellar de la Frontera, Cave of Bacinete, Charcoal, Common buzzard, Common crane, Common genet, Cork (material), Cork cambium, Cortes de la Frontera, Egyptian mongoose, El Bosque, Andalusia, Emirate of Granada, Erica arborea, Europe, European polecat, Fallow deer, Fern, Forests of the Iberian Peninsula, Hiking, Holly, Hunting, Iberian lynx, Jerez de la Frontera, Jimena de la Frontera, Kite (bird), Laurus nobilis, Lichen, List of Sites of Community Importance in Andalusia, Los Barrios, Medina-Sidonia, Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean Sea, Moss, Mushroom hunting, Nasrid dynasty, Natural park (Spain), Neanderthal, Neolithic, Olive, ..., Otter, Paleolithic, Phloem, Prado del Rey, Province of Cádiz, Province of Málaga, Quercus faginea, Quercus pyrenaica, Quercus suber, Rhododendron ponticum, Roe deer, San José del Valle, Sistine Chapel, Spain, Spanish imperial eagle, Stork, Strait of Gibraltar, Tarifa, Ubrique, Vulture, Weasel, White Towns of Andalusia, Wildcat, Wind farm. Expand index (24 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Alcalá de los Gazules

Alcalá de los Gazules is a city located in the province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae.

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Algar, Andalusia

Algar is a city in the province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Algeciras

Algeciras (translit) is a port city in the south of Spain, and is the largest city on the Bay of Gibraltar (in Spanish, the Bahía de Algeciras).

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Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía) is an autonomous community in southern Spain.

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Arcos de la Frontera

Arcos de la Frontera is a town and municipality in the Sierra de Cádiz comarca, province of Cádiz, in Andalusia, Spain.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Benalup-Casas Viejas

Casas Viejas is a city located in the province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Benaocaz

Benaocaz is a village located in the province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Castellar de la Frontera

Castellar de la Frontera is a town and municipality located in the province of Cádiz, in Andalusia, Spain.

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Cave of Bacinete

The Cave of Bacinete (Spanish: Cueva de Bacinete) is a cave located in Los Alcornocales Natural Park, Los Barrios, province of Andalusia, south Spain.

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Charcoal

Charcoal is the lightweight black carbon and ash residue hydrocarbon produced by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances.

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Common buzzard

The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium-to-large bird of prey whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia.

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Common crane

The common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.

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Common genet

The common genet (Genetta genetta) is a small viverrid indigenous to Africa that was introduced to southwestern Europe and the Balearic Islands.

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Cork (material)

Cork is an impermeable buoyant material, the phellem layer of bark tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the cork oak), which is endemic to southwest Europe and northwest Africa.

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Cork cambium

Cork cambium (pl. cambia or cambiums) is a tissue found in many vascular plants as part of the epidermis.

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Cortes de la Frontera

Cortes de la Frontera is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain.

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Egyptian mongoose

The Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), also known as the ichneumon, is a species of mongoose.

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El Bosque, Andalusia

El Bosque is a town and municipality located in the province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Emirate of Granada

The Emirate of Granada (إمارة غرﻧﺎﻃﺔ, trans. Imarat Gharnāṭah), also known as the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (Reino Nazarí de Granada), was an emirate established in 1230 by Muhammad ibn al-Ahmar.

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Erica arborea

Erica arborea (tree heath) is a species of flowering plant (angiosperms) in the heather family, Ericaceae.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European polecat

The European polecat (Mustela putorius) – also known as the common ferret, black or forest polecat, or fitch (as well as some other names) – is a species of mustelid native to western Eurasia and north Morocco.

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Fallow deer

The fallow deer (Dama dama) is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Forests of the Iberian Peninsula

The woodlands of the Iberian Peninsula are distinct ecosystems on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

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Hiking

Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.

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Holly

Ilex, or holly, is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.

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Hunting

Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping animals, or pursuing or tracking them with the intent of doing so.

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Iberian lynx

The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is a wild cat species native to the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe that is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

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Jerez de la Frontera

Jerez de la Frontera, or simply Jerez, is a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, located midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Cádiz Mountains.

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Jimena de la Frontera

Jimena de la Frontera is a historic town and municipality located in the province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Kite (bird)

Kite is a common name for certain birds of prey in the family Accipitridae, particularly in subfamilies Milvinae, Elaninae, and Perninae.

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Laurus nobilis

Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous (smooth and hairless) leaves, in the flowering plant family Lauraceae.

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Lichen

A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship.

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List of Sites of Community Importance in Andalusia

This is a list of Sites of Community Importance in Andalusia.

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Los Barrios

Los Barrios is a small town and municipality in the south of Spain.

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Medina-Sidonia

Medina-Sidonia is a city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Moss

Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations.

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Mushroom hunting

Mushroom hunting, Houby hunting, mushrooming, mushroom picking, mushroom foraging, and similar terms describe the activity of gathering mushrooms in the wild, typically for food.

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Nasrid dynasty

The Nasrid dynasty (بنو نصر banū Naṣr or banū al-Aḥmar) was the last Arab Muslim dynasty in Iberia, ruling the Emirate of Granada from 1230 until 1492.

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Natural park (Spain)

In Spain, a natural park (Spanish: parque natural) is a natural space protected for its biology, geology, or landscape, with ecological, aesthetic, educational, or scientific value whose preservation merits preferential attention on the part of public administration.

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Neanderthal

Neanderthals (also; also Neanderthal Man, taxonomically Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo, who lived in Eurasia during at least 430,000 to 38,000 years ago.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Olive

The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands and Réunion.

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Otter

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.

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Phloem

In vascular plants, phloem is the living tissue that transports the soluble organic compounds made during photosynthesis and known as photosynthates, in particular the sugar sucrose, to parts of the plant where needed.

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Prado del Rey

Prado del Rey is a city located in the province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Province of Cádiz

Cádiz is a province of southern Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Province of Málaga

The Province of Málaga (Provincia de Málaga) is located on the southern mediterranean coast of Spain, in Andalusia.

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Quercus faginea

Quercus faginea, the Portuguese oak or Valencian oak, is a species of oak native to the western Mediterranean region in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.

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Quercus pyrenaica

Quercus pyrenaica, commonly known as Pyrenean oak, is a tree native to southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa.

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Quercus suber

Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''.

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Rhododendron ponticum

Rhododendron ponticum, called common rhododendron or pontic rhododendron, is a species of Rhododendron native to southern Europe and southwest Asia.

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Roe deer

The European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the western roe deer, chevreuil, or simply roe deer or roe, is a Eurasian species of deer.

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San José del Valle

San José del Valle is a city located in the province of Cádiz, southern Spain.

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Sistine Chapel

The Sistine Chapel (Sacellum Sixtinum; Cappella Sistina) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish imperial eagle

The Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti), also known as the Iberian imperial eagle, Spanish eagle, or Adalbert's eagle, is a threatened species of eagle native to the Iberian Peninsula.

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Stork

Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills.

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Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar (مضيق جبل طارق, Estrecho de Gibraltar) is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco and Ceuta (Spain) in Africa.

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Tarifa

Tarifa is a small town in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, on the southernmost coast of mainland Spain.

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Ubrique

Ubrique is a town located in the province of Cádiz, Spain.

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Vulture

A vulture is a scavenging bird of prey.

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Weasel

A weasel is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae.

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White Towns of Andalusia

The White Towns of Andalusia, or Pueblos Blancos, are a series of towns and large villages in the northern part of the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga in southern Spain, mostly within the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park.

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Wildcat

The wildcat is a small cat species complex comprising ''Felis silvestris'' and the ''Felis lybica''.

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Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alcornocales_Natural_Park

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