Monfragüe is less at one hour. Cut is a Valley furrowed by the rivers and Tietar, of some 30 km length by some 7 km of width. Its landscape, animal, vegetable richness and its preserved well, returned deserving it declaration of Natural reserve, since 1979.

The primitive men were here, we know it by the cave paintings that they left and who have been preserved also for 2000 years has C the Romans those which called in Monfragüe, Monsfragorum, Monte Fragoso. Later what is Arab, those which built the fortress which is in him higher than the mountain. The zone was a strategic step people and goods, which converted it instead of bandits, this made that the king Carlos III, orders the construction of the village of Villarreal de San Carlos, in 1784.

In Monfragüe him some damage occurred before their declaration like Natural reserve, for example the construction of two prisoners during the Sixties: that of Alcántara and that of Torrejón, which made disappear from invaluable zones of natural watery ecosystem, as are the shores. Another cruelty that in its time it did not appear was massive repopulation with Eucalyptus, at the beginning of the 70, a foreign species which helps much with the desertisation of the ground.

Still thus Mountain Fragoso is as a large spot of Mediterranean mountain perfectly preserved which gives refuge to a great diversity of animal and vegetable species, much of they in danger of extinction. Its climate is Mediterranean, with its characteristics of shortage rains and high temperatures in summer.

Monfragüe combines the perfection of the side extents, with rocks, pastures and wetlands.

The rocks of quartzite covered with lichens, are the typical image of Monfragüe that always we will recall, not only bring landscape beauty to the environment but are places refuge and nesting of multitude of birds. We advise to stop without speed in the place called "the Jump of the Gipsy", to observe the landscape, to fix in the birds of the rocks, to supervise water, to indicate on our insignificance.

The pasture is the Mediterranean forest dug by the elimination of the heather, is a traditional way to benefit from the resources in a rational and bearable way. At the same time and in same space one benefits from the grazing grounds for the ewes, the nipple for the breeding of the pig, the firewood, cork, larger hunting.

The wetlands of Monfragüe are the shores of the rivers, the groupings and the stopping, only the first is a natural ecosystem, the others two are created by the man.

Between the 18.000 ha which occupies the Park, are including the municipal terms or a part of them of the populations of Houses Miravete, Jaraicejo, Malpartida de Plasencia, Serradilla, Toril, Torrejón the Fair one, Serrejón and of Villarreal de San Carlos, this last like only wedges urban.