Guadarrama National Park
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Guadarrama National Park (in Spanish: Parque Nacional de Guadarrama) is a project in which it is tried to protect approximately 37,000 hectares of the most valuable zone of the Mountain range of Guadarrama (Sistema Central), located in the provinces of Madrid, Segovia and Ávila (Spain). This National Park would be fourteenth of the country in antiquity and quarter in extension. The Society of Peñalara Mountain climbing proposed in the 1920 that the Mountain range of Guadarrama (on Spanish: Sierra de Guadarrama) was declared National Park. This project, that in that year was not successful, was stopped until principles of years 2000. It was then when the Community of Madrid retook this old ambition. The part of the National Park corresponding to the Community of Madrid already is planned. The government of Castilla y León is creating the plan pertaining to his community.
He anticipates himself that between 2007 and 2008 the proposal in Cortes Generales of Spain will be approved. The project tries to protect the eleven present ecosystems different in the Mountain range from Guadarrama, some of them of high Mediterranean mountain only in the Peninsula. Altogether, in the zone that will be declared National Park it has more than 1,280 different species, of which 13 are in extinction danger, more than 1,500 native plants and 30 different types of vegetation. The species present animals in the future park represent 45% of the total fauna of Spain and 18% of the European. Between the vegetal species they honor the scots pine, the oak, the juniper, the oak and piorno, among other many. As far as the fauna they abound mammalian like red deers, wild boars, roe deers, fallow deer, wild goats, badgers, several mustelidaes, wild cats, foxes, hares, etc.; a great amount of aquatic species of birds in the dams, and great rapaces like the imperial eagle or the black vulture.
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