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Description
The Sierra de Aracena is not very high and its mountains have a gentle, rounded shape. The area around Jabugo is mostly covered with dehesas. A dehesa is a type of agroforestry and cultural landscape that is characteristic of this western part of the Sierra de Aracena. Cattle graze on these 'flat' pieces of land between (mainly) cork oak and holm oak forests and the black Ibérico pigs forage for their daily meal of sweet acorns. The dehesas are a model for the small scale of the entire Sierra de Aracena. The advantage is that the many trees (and the lined paths that run through them) offer shade to hikers in the warm months. In spring, the ground is covered with a colorful and fragrant carpet of dozens of varieties of flowers with many butterflies, insects and birds.
Jabugo is a town located in an area with an enormous diversity of crops and trees such as figs, mushrooms, many kinds of vegetables, fruit trees, olives, nuts, grains, sweet chestnuts, eucalyptus and especially many cork oaks. The region is known for its signature ham, Jamón ibérico. With the goats, chickens, cows and pigs that roam freely everywhere and lynx, iberiankeisarikotka and munkkikorppikotka that find their safe habitat here. And many other birds, see the list below.
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Access
Jabugo is located close to the intersection of two main roads: the N-435 from Huelva and the A-49 Autopista del Quinto Centenario motorway north-south to Extremadura and the N-433 east-west for the Ruta de la Plata north from Sevilla to Portugal. Then take the country road HU-8122 into Jabugo. From Jabugo you can do the 13 km circular walk that is indicated on the map and will take you between 3 and 4 hours, but you can of course also choose a shorter walk in the area.