Albera Natural Park

1. NATURAL PARK
L’ALBERA

2. CLIMATE
• The climate is humid Mediterranean
with marine influence, with
differences according to the
topographic situation, especially
altitude. The average temperature is
around 14-16 ° in almost all the
region with the highest coastal areas.
Elevated sectors of the Pyrenean
mountains the temperatures are
much lower.

3. VEGETATION
• In western Albera takes place zoning altitudinal vegetation that country
and of cork oaks with viburnum (Quercetum ilicis galloprovinciale) to
the beech (Fagion sylvaticae), through lands dominated by the mountain
oak (Quercetum mediterraneo-montanum) and mixed deciduous forests
with oak and maple (Querco- Aceretum OPAL).

4. WHERE IS IT?
• Albera the Emporda is high in
the south of Catalonia.

5. THE HISTORY
• The Albera range, which is lower necks in the Pyrenees, has always been
passing place between peoples and cultures of Europe and the Iberian
peninsula, but instead of human settlement. In its southern slopes are one
of the most important concentrations of megalithic monuments in
Catalonia, with a timeline between the middle Neolithic and Chalcolithic.

6. FAUNA
• The fauna of this area is very interesting, especially with regard to the herpetofauna,
with some rare species. For example inhabit the tortoise (Testudo hermanni), the turtle
(Mauremys leprous), the psammodromus small (Psammodromus hispanicus), the shrew
(suncus etruscus) shrew garden (Crocidura suaveolens) and some bats (cavemen,
fisurícoles and forestry).