Peñón de Zaframagón Natural Reserve
Located on the route of the Vía Verde de la Sierra, on the border of the provinces of Cádiz and Seville, is the Peñón de Zaframagón, a place cataloged in 1989 as a “Nature Reserve”. El Peñón is an enclave of great scenic value since it is a 584-meter high limestone escarpment crossed by the Guadalporcún River through the so-called “Garganta del Estrechón”, a deep fissure or canyon dug by the river.
Its main value lies in the sighting of a colony of griffon vultures, the largest in Andalusia and one of the most numerous in Europe. Eagle owls, tawny owls, Bonelli's eagles, foxes, genets and badgers, among others, also inhabit the area.
It has an ecosystem of Mediterranean vegetation, where holm oak, wild olive, carob and gall oak predominate in the arboreal layer, while in the shrub we can find myrtle, strawberry tree, mastic and rockrose. One of its endemic plants is the Centaurea depressa.