| The grove of evergreen oaks is the vegetable plant
domineering community, in minor measurement we find
immense forests of chestnut-trees populated with ferns in the shady
zones. In a bit more humid zones, for its bigger altitude the alcornocal,
is the most extensive. In the valleys close to the permanent courses
of water, the landscape prospers with the presence of such trees
of Bank as black poplars, alder-trees, willows and ash-trees. Finally
in the fertile plaines of the valleys near to the villages the gardens
of fruit trees appear, completing with its fruits, its leafs and
its flowers the wide scale of colours that offer these highland
landscapes.
These landscapes allow the existence of a varied fauna.
 Besides
numerous kinds of amphibians, reptiles and birds, these sierras
are inhabited by mammals predators, as the wildcat or pertaining
to deer, the mongoose, the weasel, the marten, the genet and the
fox, emphasizing the presence, though scanty, of the lynx. It stand
out the wild boar and the deer recently got in some zones where
they were skimping. Numerous greedy birds furrow the highland skies
as the real eagles, perdigueras, culebreras and causeway, the ratonero,
the real owl and the tawny vulture. The presence deserves to be
indicated, within Aroche, a colony of black vultures.
Hundreds of kilometres of walls or enclosures of stones, ways and
stone pavements, water mills, fountains , watering places for farm
animals, wells, irrigation ditches, ponds, etc. All of them shape
a Rural Patrimony of an incalculable value whose conservation deserves
the respect of all. |
