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Ecotourism 04. Inland Andalusia

During the last decade of last century, the segment of tourism to nature areas opened up in Andalusia, inland Andalusia is a unique offer within Spain and among the best in Europe.

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eptional refuge for flora and its bio-diversity<br />

e of its geographic isolation<br />

the mountain sides collecting<br />

water from the thawing<br />

snow to water small market<br />

gardens.<br />

Sierra Nevada is an exceptional<br />

refuge for flora and<br />

its bio-diversity because of<br />

its geographic isolation, the<br />

steep sides of the ecological<br />

slopes and the diversity of<br />

its ecological nooks. It has<br />

2.100 catalogued vegetal<br />

species, 116 of them are<br />

endangered.<br />

Places of special interest<br />

close to Sierra Nevada:<br />

• Mulhacén (3.481 m),<br />

Veleta, el Alcazaba and<br />

el Cartujo Peaks<br />

• Trevenque Needle<br />

• Altera glacial lagoons (at<br />

3.146 m.)<br />

• The Mulhacén hollow, la<br />

Caldera, Corral del Veleta<br />

or de Valdeinfierno.<br />

• Aguas Verdes and Guarnón<br />

and the area of the<br />

lagoons (Larga, Caldera,<br />

Mosca, Aguas Verdes,<br />

Sietre Lagunas and<br />

others)<br />

• Ski resort of Borreguiles<br />

and Pradollano<br />

• And of course, all the villages<br />

in the Alpujarras in<br />

the provinces of Granada<br />

and Almería.<br />

DOCTOR CANON<br />

<strong>Ecotourism</strong> 19

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