Dehesa de Castilseras
The farm is owned by MAYASA (SEPI group), with almost 9,000 hectares, which covers part of the municipalities of Alamillo, Almadenejos and Almadén, whose municipality houses most of the farm.
The Castilseras dehesa is located in the southwest of the province of Ciudad Real, in the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha.
La Dehesa de Castilseras is an area with certain environmental characteristics that favor the presence of some emblematic species such as the black vulture, the black stork or the imperial eagle. Due to these environmental values, the European Union has included the Sierras de Almadén-Chillón-Guadalmez in the Natura2000 Network, as well as other nearby protected areas, such as Sierra Morena, Sierra de Santa Eufemia, Sierra de los Canalizos, and the Quejigal rivers, Valdeazogues and Alcúdia.
Its landscape is characterized by holm oak forests, cork oaks, reservoirs, Mediterranean mountains and steep quartzite mountains make up an exceptional landscape, along with the banks of the Valdeazogues River, where willows, ash trees, poplars and diverse riverside vegetation grow.
The farm is crossed by the Valdaezogues rivers, which have shaped the landscape over millions of years, leaving a relief of valleys and mountains, mainly quartzite.
It´s estimated that in the last 3,000 years this territory has become a landscape through the complementary action between nature and man, and whose result, the Dehesa, is one of the most unique ecosystems on earth, in no other European country have of a landscape and ecological jewel like this. The Dehesas are the equivalent of the African savannahs where, instead of herds of antelope, zebra and wildebeest, our grazers are mainly sheep, cattle and deer.
The farm has a rotational agriculture system with about 1,000 hectares planted. The merino sheep herd has 8,000 heads divided into four stables: Mesto, Barrancos, Covaleras and Aguzaderas.
The Castilseras dehesa is located in the southwest of the province of Ciudad Real, in the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha.
The environmental characteristics of the presence of some emblematic species such as the black vulture the black stork or the imperial eagle. Due to these environmental values, the European Union has included the Sierras de Almadén-Chillón-Guadalmez, where Castilseras is located, in the Natura2000 Network, as well as other nearby protected areas, such as Sierra Morena, Sierra de Santa Eufemia, Sierra de los Canalizos, and the Quejigal rivers, Valdeazogues and Alcúdia.
The landscape of Castilseras is characterized by pastured oak forests, cork oaks, reservoirs, Mediterranean mountains and steep quartzite mountains that make up an exceptional environment. The farm is crossed by the Valdeazogues and Alcudia rivers, which have shaped the landscape over millions of years, leaving a relief of valleys and mountains, mainly quartzite. It´s estimated that in the last 3,000 years this territory has become a landscape through the complementary action between nature and man, and whose result, the Dehesa, is one of the most unique ecosystems on earth, in no other European country have of a landscape and ecological jewel like this. The Dehesas are the equivalent of the African savannahs where, instead of herds of antelope, zebra and wildebeest, our grazers are mainly sheep, cattle and deer.
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Presentación general
El Parque Minero de Almadén es un conjunto de instalaciones y experiencias complementarias:
Hospital de mineros San Rafael
Construido en 1755, que alberga: Archivo Histórico, Espacios expositivos, Hospital de mineros, Cárcel de forzados, Patrimonio comarcal.
Instalaciones exteriores
Espacios tematizados: Antiguos talleres, Castillete del pozo de San Aquilino, Castillete del San Teodoro.
Ecoturismo Castilseras
Paisajes espectaculares con una gran variedad faunística, botánica y geológica