RN 2000 ZEPA code: ES0000092.<\/p>\n
Extension: 191,204 ha.<\/p>\n
RN 2000 LIC code: ES4240016.<\/p>\n
Extension: 140,068 ha.<\/p>\n
Name: Alto Tajo.<\/p>\n
Province: Guadalajara (40 municipalities) and Cuenca (6 municipalities).<\/p>\n
Municipal terms: CUENCA: Beteta, Carrascosa, Cuenca, Cueva del Hierro, Masegosa and Tragacete. GUADALAJARA: Ablanque, Alcoroches, Alustante, Anguita, Arbeteta, Armallones, Ba\u00f1os de Tajo, Cifuentes, Cobeta, Corduente, Checa, Chequilla, Esplegares, Fuembellida, Huertahernando, Luz\u00f3n, Mazarete, Megina, Ocentejo, Olmeda de Cobeta, Orea, Pe\u00f1al\u00e9n, Peralejos de las Truchas, Pinilla de Molina, Poveda de la Sierra, El Recuenco, Riba de Saelices, Sacecorbo, Saelices de la Sal, Selas, Taravilla, Terzaga, Tierzo, Torremocha del Pinar, Traid, Trillo, Valhermoso, Valtablado del R\u00edo, Villanueva de Alcor\u00f3n and Zaorejas.<\/p>\n
Characteristic habitats: mountain pine forests, sessile juniper forests, gall oak forests, rebollares, juniper forests and creeping juniper forests, bojedas and
\nblack juniper bushes. Vegetation of Atlantic influence such as hazelnut groves and relict tilares. Gallery forests. Communities
\nrupicolas. Halophilic enclaves. Caves and chasms.<\/p>\n
Outstanding values and most representative and unique species: rock and forest birds; mammals such as otter and Cabrera's vole; native cyprinids; invertebrates such as the crayfish and the Elizabethan butterfly.<\/p>\n
Other protection figures: Alto Tajo Natural Park (Law 1\/2000, of April 6). It also includes the Natural Monuments of the Birth of the Cuervo River and the Chasms of Valsalobre, as well as the Flora Microreserve of the Wet Meadows of Torremocha del Pinar.<\/p>\n
Recommended time of visit and other recommendations: the main access points for your visit are the towns of Molina de Arag\u00f3n, Corduente, Zaorejas, Cifuentes, Beteta, Peralejos de las Truchas, Checa and Orea. The Natural Park has two interpretation centers, located in Corduente and Orea and three information points in Peralejos de las Truchas, Puente de San Pedro and Puente de Poveda. In 2009, two new interpretation centers will come into operation in Zaorejas and Checa. The Natural Park has more than 40 interpretive hiking routes, highlighting the 9 Geo-routes, botanical trails, ornithological routes and ethnographic routes.<\/p>\n