List of national parks of Spain

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Map showing the distribution of the national parks in Spain as of 2021.

There are sixteen national parks in Spain: eleven in the Iberian Peninsula, four in the Canary Islands and one in the Balearic Islands. Twelve of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain have national parks. Canary Islands has the most with four, followed by Andalusia with three, and Castile-La Mancha and Castile and León with two each. There are five autonomous communities that have no national parks: Basque Country, La Rioja, Murcia, Navarre, Valencian Community.

Template:As of about 15 million people visited Spain's national parks, with Teide accounting for about 28% of all visitors. The second most visited park was Picos de Europa (17%), followed by Ordesa y Monte Perdido (13%). The least visited parks were Cabrera Archipelago (0.81%) and Cabañeros (0.72%).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With more than 2.5 million visitors in 2013, Teide was the most visited national park in Europe that year, and sixth most visited in the world.<ref name="laopinion_2014"/>

National parks

Name	Photo	Province	Autonomous community	Designated	Area	Description	Ref
Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici	File:San Mauricio lake.jpg	Lleida	Catalonia	1955	Template:Sort	Consists of two valleys (Sant Nicolau and L'Escrita) located between the rivers Noguera Pallaresa and Noguera Ribagorzana. Comaloforno is the highest mountain, with a peak at Template:Convert.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Cabañeros	File:Dehesa cabaneros.jpg	Ciudad Real and Toledo	Castile-La Mancha	1995	Template:Sort	It is the best and largest surviving area of Iberian Mediterranean forest, with an enormous variety of plant species. Part of the Montes de Toledo system of mountain ranges. Rocigalgo, at about Template:Convert, is the highest mountain in the park.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Cabrera Archipelago	File:Port de Cabrera.jpg	Balearic Islands	Balearic Islands	1991	Template:Sort	Consists of the Balearic island Cabrera, that was isolated from Majorca during the last glacial period 12,000 years ago, and the surrounding archipelagoTemplate:Update inline.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Caldera de Taburiente	File:Caldera de Taburiente.jpg	Santa Cruz de Tenerife (La Palma island)	Canary Islands	1954	Template:Sort	A huge volcanic caldera covered by thick forest of Canary Island Pine and Canary Islands Juniper, being home of several endangered species and the astronomical Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Doñana	File:Wetlands in Donana.jpg	Huelva and Sevilla	Andalusia	1969	Template:Sort	The park is an area of marshes, shallow streams, and sand dunes in Las Marismas, the delta where the Guadalquivir River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It has a biodiversity that is unique in Europe, including thousands of European and African migratory birds, and endangered species such as the Spanish imperial eagle and the Iberian lynx.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Garajonay	File:Gomera.jpg	Santa Cruz de Tenerife (La Gomera island)	Canary Islands	1981	Template:Sort	The park provides the best example of Canarian laurisilva, a humid subtropical forest that in the Tertiary covered almost all of Southern Europe. Many of the species of flora and fauna are endemic to the Macaronesian islands, the Canary Islands or La Gomera, and the Garajonay forest harbors a rich biota of understory plants, invertebrates, and birds and bats, including a large number of endemic species.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Guadarrama	File:Circo y cima de Peñalara1.JPG	Madrid, Segovia and Ávila	Community of Madrid and Castile and León	2013	Template:Sort	The only Iberian examples of "high Mediterranean mountain" harbouring more than 1,280 different species of plants and animals.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Illas Atlánticas de Galicia	File:Illas Cies Praia.jpg	A Coruña and Pontevedra	Galicia	2002	Template:Sort	It comprises the archipelagos of Cíes, Ons, Sálvora and Cortegada. The park covers a land area of 1,200 ha (3,000 acres) and a sea area of 7,200 ha (18,000 acres)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Monfragüe	File:Salto del Gitano, Parque Nacional de Monfragüe.jpg	Cáceres	Extremadura	2007	Template:Sort	Three main habitats predominate: Mediterranean woodland and scrubland, dehesas, rocky areas and water bodies (rivers and reservoirs). More than 200 vertebrate species breed in the park, many others hibernate or can be seen on passage during migration to other latitudes. Birds are the group of vertebrates with the greatest abundance of species and individuals.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ordesa y Monte Perdido	File:Valle ordesa.jpg	Huesca	Aragon	1918	Template:Sort	High mountain park in the transition between the Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean regions, glacial erosion formations and high biodiversity.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Picos de Europa	File:Lamedo I.jpg	Asturias, León and Cantabria	Asturias, Castile-Leon and Cantabria	1918	Template:Sort	Covers the mountain range Picos de Europa (part of the Cantabrian Mountains) and consists of three massifs: Central, Western and Eastern. Torre de Cerredo, at Template:Convert, is the highest mountain.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sierra Nevada	File:DSCN0427.JPG	Granada, Almería, and Málaga	Andalusia	1999	Template:Sort	The park has fifteen peaks over Template:Convert altitude, including Mulhacén, the highest mountain in the Iberian Peninsula, with a peak of Template:Convert.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sierra de las Nieves	File:Sierra de las Nieves.jpg	Malaga	Andalusia	2021	22,979.76 ha	The true hallmark of this territory are the Spanish fir forests, a botanical relic of the Tertiary conifer forests, endemic to the mountain ranges of Malaga and Cadiz, and which have in this protected natural area their largest area of distribution in the world with nearly 2,000 hectares.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Tablas de Daimiel	File:TablasDeDaimiel1.jpg	Ciudad Real	Castile-La Mancha	1973	Template:Sort	The park is the last surviving example of floodplain wetlands located in the arid central part of the Iberian peninsula.<ref>Álvarez-Cobelas, M. & Cirujano, S. 1996. TDNP: Aquatic Ecology and Society (in Spanish). National Parks Autonomous Agency, Ministry of Environment.</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Teide	File:Teide Tenerife3.jpg	Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife island)	Canary Islands	1954	Template:Sort	Atop the highest mountain of Spain, this national park, also a UNESCO world heritage site, features volcanic mountains, various plant species including the fragile species such as the Canary Island cedar and the Canary Island pine, and a few birds and animals.	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Timanfaya	File:2008-12-19 Lanzarote Timanfaya.jpg	Las Palmas (Lanzarote island)	Canary Islands	1974	Template:Sort	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• Ministry of Environment (Spain)
• Natural park (Spain)
• Àrea natural d'especial interès — protected areas in the Balearic Islands

External links

• An introduction to the new Sierra de las Nieves National Park
• Template:Official website Template:In lang
• Spain's National Parks (in English)