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Spain - Ronda - Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park
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Declared as Biosphere's Reserve by the UNESCO, the mountain range of Grazalema offers an spectacular view of reliefs over limestone rocks, as a result of its violent geological history: valleys forming gorges, caves, edges and gullies, ... and a great number of nature forms created by the disolution processes happened at ancient geological times.
The Natural Park Sierra de Grazalema is located between the provinces of Cadiz and Malaga, with an extension of 51.695 Ha. at the most occidental side of the Betican Mountain Range. It was a border zone during the age of the Arab Kingdom of Granada and the Christian Kingdom of Castilla durign the 13th and 14th century, and a place of several fights between both kingdoms.This is the origin of a place where a very concentrate population lives, where the villages are located on the top of mountains and at the hills' sides, being part of the landscape. This awesome cultural frame, typical of lots of civilizations living at the mountain range's belt surrounding the Mediterranean, exists nowadays despite of the centuries.
A total number of 13 towns are included at the Park's area, bigger or smaller, being its name: Grazalema, Zahara de la Sierra, Villaluenga del Rosario, Benaocaz, Ubrique, El Bosque, Prado del Rey and el Gastor at the province of Cadiz and Benaoján, Montejaque, Cortes de la Frontera, Jimena de Líbar and Ronda at the province of Malaga.
This Mountain Range of the province of Cadiz has got a height between 600 and 1600 m. over its valleys and surrounding depressions. It is an area of wild reliefs, with valleys formed by vertical natural walls like the"Garganta Verde" (Green Gorge), whose depth arrives to the 400 m. It is also common to find several caves, like the ones found at the"Complex Hundidero-Gato", the biggest cave of Andalusia, or the"Cueva de la Pileta", known word wide by its prehistoric rests.
Despite the men's presence since ancient times,
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