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Topographic map of Spain. The wildlife of Spain includes the diverse flora and fauna of Spain.The country located at the south of France has two long coastlines, one on the north on the Cantabrian Sea, another on the East and South East on the Mediterranean Sea, and a smaller one on the west and south west on the Atlantic Ocean, its territory includes a big part of the Iberian Peninsula, the ...
Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub is a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. [1] The biome is generally characterized by dry summers and rainy winters, although in some areas rainfall may be uniform. Summers are typically hot in low-lying inland locations but can be cool near colder seas. Winters are typically mild to cool ...
Reference no. 234 [ 1 ] Doñana National Park or Parque Nacional y Natural de Doñana is a natural reserve in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the provinces of Huelva (most of its territory within the municipality of Almonte [ 2 ]), Cádiz and Seville. It covers 543 km 2 (209.65 sq mi), of which 135 km 2 (52.12 sq mi) are a protected area.
Tabernas. Coordinates. 37°00′N 2°27′W / 37°N 2.45°W / 37; -2.45. The Tabernas Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Tabernas) is a desert located within Spain's south-eastern province of Almería. It is in the interior, about 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of the provincial capital Almería, in the Tabernas municipality in Andalusia. [1]
There are five autonomous communities that have no national parks: Basque Country, La Rioja, Murcia, Navarre, Valencian Community. As of 2017 about 15 million people visited Spain's national parks, with Teide accounting for about 28% of all visitors. The second most visited park was Picos de Europa (17%), followed by Ordesa y Monte Perdido (13%).
It has an average altitude of 650 m. Its total area including Spanish island territories is 505,370 km 2 (195,124 sq mi) of which 499,542 km 2 (192,874 sq mi) is land and 5,240 km 2 (2,023 sq mi) is water. [2] It has the 30th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 1,039,233 km 2 (401,250 sq mi). Spain lies between latitudes 27° and 44° N, and ...
Spain, [ f ] formally the Kingdom of Spain, [ a ][ g ] is a country in southwestern Europe with territories in North Africa. [ 11 ][ h ] It is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands in ...
Autonomous Community. Navarre. The Bardenas Reales (sometimes referred as Bárdenas Reales) is a semi-desert natural region, or badlands, of some 42,000 hectares (420 km 2; 104,000 acres) in southeast Navarre (Spain). The soils are made up of clay, chalk, and sandstone and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons ...