• Region: Andalucia
• Province: Cádiz
• Declared a Natural Park: 1989
• Park surface area: 10,522 hectares
• Towns and Villages: San Fernando, Chiclana de la Frontera, Puerto Real, Puerto de Santa María and Cádiz

Points of interest

The 5km bay area (Bahía de Cádiz) is a wintering ground and summer breeding area to 200 different aquatic bird species. This Atlantic tidal area consists of sandy beaches, river estuary, marshlands, salt pans, dunes and rocky inlets. Extensive pine groves once covered a large part of this area.

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• Region: Andalucia
• Province: Cadiz
• Declared a Natural Park: 1989
• Park surface area: 5.077 hectares (3.925 land plus 1.152 marine.)
• Declared a Zone of Special Protection for Birds: 2002
• Towns and Villages: Barbate, Vejer de La Frontera

Points of interest

Halfway between The Bay of Cadiz and El Estrecho between Mediterranean and Atlantic waters is the La Breña y Marismas de Barbate Natural Park.

Although one of the smaller parks in Andalucia it has 28km of marked pathways and covers both land and marine areas. 100 metre cliffs drop vertically into the powerful Atlantic ocean. Above the cliffs is a dense woodland of Stone pines (Pinus pinea) which create a naturally rounded canopy of shade. As well as the pine woods and marine zone there are moving dunes and wetland where the Barbate river reaches the Shore.

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