Technical Sheet

Name:

Sierra de Guadarrama National Park

Pronouncement:

Planning and Managing tools:

Sierra de Guadarrama Natural Resources Ordering Plan (Plan de Ordenación de los Recursos Naturales de la Sierra de Guadarrama) from the Madrid Autonomous Community: Legislative Decree 96/2009, November 18th (BOCM 14/1/2010).

“Sierra de Guadarrama” Natural Space Natural Resources Ordering Plan (Plan de Ordenación de los Recursos Naturales del Espacio Natural “Sierra de Guadarrama”), Segovia and Ávila: Legislative Decree 4/2010, January 14th (BOCYL 20/1/2010).

In the mean time the National Park Usage and Management Master Plan (Plan Rector de Uso y Gestión del Parque Nacional) is approved, all the management tools related to the geographies scope protected natural areas will remain valid, for any concern in line with the Law 7/2013, June 25th, Sierra de Guadarrama National Park pronouncement.

The Matas Mounts (Montes Matas) and the Valsaín Pinewood (Pinar de Valsaín) are subject to a special regulation.

Surface:

33.960 hectares have been declared as National Park:

- Madrid Autonomous Community: 21.714 hectares

- Castilla and León Parliament (Segovia): 12.246 hectares

- National Park Special Protection Area (Matas Mounts and Valsaín Pinewood): 7.011 hectares.

Other 62.687 hectares pronounced as Peripheral Protection Zone.

Zoning:

-National Park

-Peripheral Protection Zone

-Socioeconomic Influence Area

Other Environmental Status:

- Cuenca Alta del Manzanares Regional Park (Peripheral Protection Zone).

- Sierra Norte de Guadarrama Natural Park.

- La Cuenca Alta del Manzanares declared as Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.

- SCI/SACs: ES3110002 Cuenca del Río Lozoya and Sierra Norte, ES3110004 Cuenca del Río Manzanares and ES3110005 Cuenca del Río Guadarrama (partially included).

- SPA ES0000057 Alto Lozoya.

- SPA ES0000010 Sierra de Guadarrama (partially included).

- SCI ES4160109 Sierra de Guadarrama (partially included).

- Real Sitio de San Ildefonso-El Espinar Biosphere Reserve declared by UNESCO.

- Peñalara Massif wetlands included in the International wetlands listing of the Ramsar Convention.

- Peñalara Massif wetlands included in the Catálogo de Embalses y Humedales (Reservoir and Wetlands Catalogue).

- Pinilla reservoir included in the Catálogo de Embalses y Humedales (Reservoir and Wetlands Catalogue).

- Fluvial Natural Reserve Manzanares river

- Fluvial Natural Reserve Alto Eresma

Description:

The Sierra de Guadarrama located in the Central Mountain Range halves naturally the north and the south mesetas shaping the centre of the Iberian Peninsula.

It accounts for a representative sample of the high-mountain Mediterranean natural systems, such as shrubs and Alpine pastures, pinewoods, Pyrenean oak woods, peat lands with glacial and periglacial landforms, and mountains landscapes with geological extraordinary elements.

Main ecosystems:

- Pinus sylvestris pinewoods on siliceous soils.

- High-mountain wetlands and lakes.

- High-mountain and mountain formations: granitic rock geomorphology emphasizing unique landscapes and forms.

- Gall and Pyrenean oak woods.

- Supra-forest level shrubs, high-mountain pastures, woody steppes in altitude and pebbles grounds.

- Pinewoods, juniper and Spanish juniper fields.