Today 7 of April were inaugurated 5 new routes in the [n Montes de Propios de Jerez]. With the expansion of the itineraries for public use in the Montes de Propios, it has gone from having 4 marked trails with 46,9 total km to 9 trails with 88,9 km marked. The trails go from the 4,3 km from the smallest, towers house, to the 18,4 km. of Deepbranch.
With the expansion, the quality of the trails has improved, because in the new ones we find ourselves represented all the ecosystems that exist in the Montes de Propios and in the [n Los Alcornocales Natural Park]. Among these ecosystems, the canuto, a relict plant formation from the tertiary period, in which the climate was subtropical. They are authentic laurel forests in which the laurel inhabits, hazelnut and rhododendron, an endangered shrub that with its flowers colors the days of May pink. This ecosystem was not represented on the previous routes and we can enjoy them on the trails of Arroyo del Parral, Houses of Quejigal and Pico de la Gallina. They develop in the upper areas of the watercourses.
They also excel in those [n trails los quejigales], ecosystem that we find in the shady areas, where the cork oak is not adapted. They are the habitat of one of the emblematic species of the Montes de Propios, the roe deer, a small ungulate of the cervid family. The roe deer is native to our mountains and has never been lost, unlike the deer that disappeared and were reintroduced.
Another novelty is that in the [the Montifarti trail] new landscapes are revealed, that we cannot meet on the paths of the Jarda. Montifarti is a farm of 300 has that is separated from the rest of the Montes de Propios. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that it is on the way between the Sierra del Aljibe, of siliceous origin and the Sierra de las Cabras, limestone origin. That is why on the Montifarti trail, that takes place in these limestone soils, we can find formations of holm oaks and common gall oaks that replace the cork oaks and Moorish gall oaks of the sandstone areas.
Lastly, another element to highlight is that on the path of [n Houses of Quejigal] we can see how the `population of this area was. In a beautiful environment, the orchard, the spring and the fountain, the bread oven and the house will bring us closer to the way of life of the people of the mountains.
With all that, los [n Montes de Propios de Jerez] It has a very complete network of trails (the most complete of those that appear in the cork oaks) with which we can approach the landscape values, ecological and cultural [n Los Alcornocales Natural Park and the Mediterranean Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve], to which it belongs. A diversity that is evident both in the values present in each path and in the length and hardness of them, meeting the needs of anyone.
Routes of the Montes de Propios
[n Ancient trails]
Red Length 7 km Medium-low Difficulty
Cerro del Charco Longitude 8,9 Medium difficulty
The Albino Length 12,6 km Medium Difficulty
Deepbranch Longitude 18,4 km High Difficulty
[n New Trails]
[n Casa de Torres] Length 4,3 km Low Difficulty
[n Arroyo del parral] Length 5,5 km Low Difficulty
[n Montifarti] Length 7,2 km Medium-Low Difficulty
[n Houses of the Quejigal] Length 10 km Medium Difficulty
[n Chicken beak] Length 15 km Medium-high difficulty
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