The Aragonese Pyrenees

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The Aragonese Pyrenees is the purest manifestation of the Ice Age that gave rise to this range, is an area of large glaciers, beautiful forests and green meadows, lakes, countless rivers and streams of high peaks and huge masses of granite. The Aragonese Pyrenees has always been regarded, by its rugged terrain, as the mecca of Spanish mountain. Huesca province has 15,615 square kilometers, of which over 30% are above 1000 meters high and with 188 peaks over 3000 meters (270 in the whole mountain range). In Huesca there are about 200 mountain lakes and about 25 glaciers. It also has 30 caves (25% from the deepest of Spain), and the two integrals in the world.

With the little that bear read, and you will have guessed how important it is in the Aragonese Pyrenees great Pyrenees, in addition to their values purely scenic, botanical and wildlife.

• National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido:

Domina its relief the massif of Monte Perdido (3,355 m), with the tops of the Three Sorors, where the valleys of Ordesa, Pineta, Añisclo and Escuaín. A landscape of contrasts: extreme aridity of the higher areas, where rainwater and snowmelt seeps through cracks and sinks, contrasts with the green valleys covered with forests and meadows where the water forms waterfalls and through canyons and ravines.

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• Natural Park of Posets-Maladeta: 

Park declared in 1994, with an area of 33,267 h. In order to protect its natural values, vegetation, flora and geomorphological formations. Natural features stand out as the thirteen glaciers, with about 350 ha. In the massive Posets, Perdiguero and Maladeta.

The park contains the largest number of peaks over 3,000 meters, nature has been bountiful in beauty and altitudes.

• Natural Park of Sierra and Canyons de Guara:

Today this National Park occupies nearly 47,450 acres and the peripheral zone of protection in your environment includes other 33,775 hectares, and thus a large area between Huesca and Barbastro Somontano, and the foothills of the Pyrenees.

The ecological value of the Natural Park of the Sierra and Canyons de Guara is beyond doubt, and its protection has been intensified since 1990 received such type of protection, since the high number of visitors it receives could endanger its many sites interest.

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