Flora and Fauna of Sierra de Guara

With its situation, the Sierra of Guara undergoes different and contrasted climatic influences at the same time: Mediterranean, Atlantic, continental and mountain. Those climate influences mixed with the broken and karstic relieves, such as the presence or not of rivers and canyons, have step by step created particular ecosystems changing according to the zones of the Sierra de Guara. In parallel, the rocky grounds being very wide, there is many animal and vegetable species rupicolous (living on the rock).

Concerning the flora of Sierra de Guara, the contrast between the Mediterranean vegetation type on its Southern slopes and Atlantic vegetation in the Northern part is striking. Several endemic plants are the witnesses of this phenomenon.
True paradise of the ornithologists with its birds of prey, the fauna of Sierra de Guara has as well wide ranges of other animals like insects (including 137 species of diurnal butterflies), the mammals, the reptiles, the Amphibians and fish.

Next, you find a list of the principal groups of animals and plants that represents the fauna and flora of Sierra de Guara with corresponding examples:

-Birds of prey: Griffon Vulture, Bearded Vulture, Peregrine Falcon, Golden Eagle, Snake Eagle, Royal Owl
-Mammals: Wild Boar, Badger, Goat, Squirrel
-Reptiles: Viperine snake, Grass snake with Collar, Grass snake of Monptelier, Asp
-Amphibians: Triton, Salamander, Gecko, Frog
-Insects: Butterflies, Bee, Wasp