Barranco del Río Dulce Nature Reserve
Its Gorge has a variety of scarps with diverse shapes, including shelters, rock forms with the shape of a boat's bow, stone arches, crags, mushrooms and pinnacles. Several lateral or fluvial scarps have produced the waterfalls. On the mountains’ sides one can see a chaotic scenery, comprising broken off rocks and levelled areas formed thanks to the mechanical disintegration of rocks via a gelifraction process.
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Location
It is situated in the northern area of the province of Guadalajara, on the westernmost outskirts of the Iberian Mountain System.
- Climate
- Continental climate. It is noted for its high temperatures.
The gorge has bored itself in a Karstic moorland from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. This formation is typical of the Upper Alcarria area and it has plant-life such as: Holm Oaks, Portuguese Oaks, small areas of Spanish Junipers and Quercus Pyrenaica, Thorny Broom, Buckthorn, Common Lavender, Thyme and Prairie lands.
The River Dulce also has barriers and travertine terraces, as well as a locked, abandoned meander.
- Surface
- 8348 ha
- Information on visits
- Before reaching Sigüenza, from the exit from the N-II via Mandayona, we find the Barranco del Río Dulce Park between the villages of Pelegrina and Aragosa.
- Legislation
- Continental climate. It is noted for its high temperatures.
- Other data
- Sigüenza Tourism Office: Phone: 949211626
Guadalajara Environment Delegation: 949 885 300
- How to get there
- Road transport
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Tourism Information Office
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Talavera de la Reina Tourist Information Office
Palenque, 2
Talavera de la Reina
(Toledo)
Tel. 925 826 322
Fax 925 806 614
