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Huelva Nature Guide
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Huelva Nature
One National Park, two Nature Parks, eight Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, four Nature Reserves, one Protected Landscape, two Green Belt Parks and five Natural
Monuments. That aside, a whole coastline of high ecological value: virgin beaches, dunes, salt marshes... All this and more you will find in Huelva, with a natural
wealth to rival any Spanish province, and protected areas that make up one third of its total land.
In Andalusia you'll find the most ecologically important and best-preserved wetlands in the whole of the European Union. The two biggest wetlands in the region,
Doñana (which is also the biggest in Europe) and the Odiel
Estuary Salt Marshes, are on Huelvan soil. Huelva is also the breeding-ground for the biggest colonies of spatulas
and black vultures on the continent and, moreover, it's home to endemic species some of which are in danger of extinction, such as the Iberian lynx, the Spanish
imperial eagle, the common chameleon, the coastal juniper tree, Portuguese thyme and the "copper flower" or "heather of the mines" from the Andévalo.
The province of Huelva is one of the best places in Europe for bird watching – specifically, along its whole coastline, and in the Doñana National Park, the Odiel
Estuary Salt Marshes Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Lagoons of Palos and Las Madres,
the Estero de Domingo Rubio (a salt marsh of the Tinto Estuary), the El
Portil Lagoon, the Isla Cristina Salt Marshes,
the Piedras Estuary Salt Marshes and El Rompido “Arrow” (Sandy Spit), and the Hinojos Salt Marshes.
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