LOCATION RESERVE OF THE BIOSPHERE

 

Includes the municipalities of Risco, Sancti-Spiritus, Tamurejo, Garbayuela, Villarta de los Montes, Helechosa de los Montes, Castilblanco, Valdecaballeros, Puebla de Alcocer, Fuenlabrada de los Montes and Herrera del Duque.

 

MAP LA SIBERIA BIOSPHERE RESERVE PROJECT 

 

 

 

 

The La Siberia Biosphere Reserve is located in the northeast of the province of Badajoz, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, and the Mediterranean biogeographical region.

In its territorial scope it includes 11 municipalities: Castilblanco, Fuenlabrada de los Montes, Garbayuela, Helechosa de los Montes, Herrera del Duque, Puebla de Alcocer, Risco, Sancti-Spíritus, Tamurejo, Valdecaballeros and Villarta de los Montes, which, as a whole, represent an area of ​​155,717 Ha, which have a population of just over eleven thousand inhabitants, forming one of the most unknown and best preserved enclaves in Extremadura.

Siberia is characterized by its forest formations, its large amount of dammed water, its abundant pastures and meadows and the traditional olive groves that mark the landscape of each of its villages. This great diversity of ecosystems and traditional management and uses have resulted in unique landscapes of high biodiversity.

It houses 8 Natural Protected Spaces of the Natura 2000 Network, 4 Special Protection Areas for Birds (ZEPA) and 7 Special Conservation Zones (ZEC); 2 Protected Spaces of the Protected Areas Network of Extremadura and 1 Wetland of International Importance RAMSAR.

 

If you want to know better our future Biosphere Reserve, you can not miss the following presentation video:

 

 

 

 

The Biosphere Reserve "La Siberia" includes the following populations:

 

 

The support of these localities has been signed by their institutional representatives, all with the priority objective of highlighting the values that characterize the region in order to make it known, while seeking to offer a real future to the inhabitants of the region. same For this, nothing better than the synergies of all the agencies involved and the citizenship in order to bring the proposed candidacy to fruition.