Editorial Penibetica Sierra de las Nieves Natural Park Map and Guide

This is two topographic walking map set with a guide booklet of the Sierra de las Nieves National Park at a scale of 1:25,000. The Parque Natural Sierra de las Nieves includes the towns of Arriate, Ronda, Parauta, Cartajima, Igualeia, Istan, Ojen, Monda, Guaro, Tolox, Alozaina, Yunquera and El Burgo. The Sierra de las Nieves Parque Natural is situated in the hills North of Marbella and to the East of the Ronda-Marbella road. The park centres on Mount Torrecilla (1909m) and covers an area of 30km by 20km (approximately 18,530 hectares). The Sierra de las Nieves Parque Natural is in the process of being declared a National Park. Sierra de las Nieves is bounded to the south by the western Costa del Sol, to the east by the Guadalhorce Valley, to the west by the Sierra of Ronda and to the north by the district of Guadalteba. Apart from a few villages, which form a rural mountain community, this isolated area is largely uninhabited, and has seen very little human influence or activity, such as agricultural cultivation. For this reason, it has an unusually rich variety of indigenous flora (pine, fir, ash, chestnut, wild olive and oak trees, as well as juniper) and fauna, including mountain goat and muflon. As the name suggests, the park is sometimes snow-covered in winter.