The Natural Park of Sierra de
las Nieves, declared
by the UNESCO as Biosphere's Reserve, is
located inside the natural region of the
Serrania de Ronda, at the province of Malaga.
This mountain space, with deep ravines and
spectacular gorges like the one calle of the
Caina, with more than 100 m fall. And also, due
to its limestone's nature, it's also a place for
sinks like the Gesm's sink, the third world's
deepest, with its 1.100 m. The highest altitude
is achieved at the Torrecila mountain (1.919 m),
at the Sierra Blanca (White Mountain Range) of
Tolox.
The most important forest of
Spanish firs, a kind of tree only growing in the
south of the Iberian Peninsula and the north of
Morocco, occupies more than 3.000 Ha. at the
Sierra de las Nieves (The Snow Mountain Range).
There can be also seen one of the biggest
populations of Ronda Spanish Ibex
at Andalusia, which, together with the roe deer,
are the two only wild species of these kind of
animals living at the Park.
