Malaga Villages Information:
SIERRA DE LAS NIEVES |
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The "Sierra de Las Nieves" (Snow Mountains)
is an outdoor natural museum which soars abrupt among impressively
deep cliffs. A space full of history and culture, the biological diversity
of this Natural Park and Biosphere Reservation is original and varied,
as a result of its pri vileged location between the Mediterranean
Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. In the old days, the "neveros"
(snow collectors) would store the snow in wells in order to distribute
it among the villages of the province in the summer. Hence the name
of this mountain range. The Sierra de Las Nieves harbours Malaga's
highest peak, Torrecilla, of 1,919 metres; and one of the planet's
deepest chasms, GESM, of which 1,098 metres have been explored thus
far. Each corner is a little paradise; each gully, a microcosm; each
headland, a challenge.
But the real botanical star is the PINSAPO, a type of Andalusian fir
inherited from the glacial past of the region, and which has endured
thanks to the special conditions of the area. It mingles with high-mountain
gall-oaks, pine trees, ilexes and cork oaks, forming an amazing forest
of high ecological and scenic value. Wild cats, foxes, wild goats
and "meloncillos" (a kind of mongoose) can be found around
it, while eagles, vultures, kestrels and a number of songbirds fly
overhead.
Craft tradition and technological innovation, the calmness of manual
labour and the dizzy speed of the latest technology, mingle in all
nine villages which this region comprises. Any time of the year is
good to get to know the Sierra de Las Nieves. The mountains teem with
a wide variety of colourful flowers in spring. There isn't a sound
more pleasant in the hottest months than that of water running down
the mountain in its rivers, streams, fountains and waterfalls. The
cold begins to take hold in autumn, as announced by the leaf-covered
ground. And winter covers the mountaintops in a white snow cloak,
a mind-blowing sight which is witnessed by a great number of visitors
who gather in amazed curiosity.
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