In the Valley of Jerte the Valley of Jerte offers many corners which allow the benefit of nature and the typist their people. The good conservation of the natural environment gives refuge to ecosystems of more varied, by granting to the visitor the privilege to be pilot events of absolutely exceptional fauna or the vegetation. To all this contributes the water abundance, which with approximately 15 throats powders the chests with the valley by creating authentic orchards and wooded zones laid out for the benefit.
The Throat of Hell allots to us a great part of its fame at the place of the Pylons; zone where the jumps water abound and cascades and where we find large well worked in the rock by the erosion of the way. This zone reaches its apogee in summer, time when crystalline and fresh water attracts with many tourists and curious with desires to enjoy a good walk by the front forest to enjoy a bath in these last.
Although this place is set up like the most popular attraction, the Natural Reserve extends its tentacles by the municipal terms Jerte, Tornavacas and of Cabezuela. Its geographical situation the place in the north of the Mountain of Tormantos and the south of the Mountain of Gredos and more concretely in the western slope of these mountainous formations where the throat attaches with the Jerte river. In the high part and by touching the Throat of Serrá, a valley glacier of quaternary, we find the Cord of Hells and the Hill of Estecillo which form the ceiling of the Reserve, at the edge the 2.300 meters height.
At summer declared Natural Reserve in November 1994 like preservation for one of the weak ecosystems of mountain present formulates in Extremadura. And that is the plant variety and abundant animal.
With the water ways we find formations wooded made up of alders, ashes and willows, which benefit from the moisture of the throat and offer a splendid refuge in the summer months. The metal disc, the houx and the birch are also in this zone, and enjoy a special protection being given its shortage while being prohibited to collect its fruits or to cut its branches
We will be able to also forward by extensions of forest to null and void sheets in which abound the oak melojo, the hawthorn, which are madroños, brushes and the Rusco. In some zones we find forests of chestnut tree, planted to replace what is rivet directed with the farm and of wood. Obviously, it will not miss the cherry trees, which we will find on many slopes and which constitutes the principal source of richness of the Valley of Jerte.
As we approach at the top, the zone of forest disappears and we are with species of heather like the mountain dwellers piornales, the juniper and the heather.
With regard to fauna, abound the river species whose star the Throat of Hell is the common trout, being catalogued us, like one of the best sections trout of Extremadura. With trout many amphibians like tritons coexist, will salamanders, toad, of common frogs and reptiles like the green-dark lizard and the viperine snake.
We can find some raptors like the real eagle, the eagle will culebreara or Milan, and in some zones the vulture leonado and the real owl.
Between the mammals it underlines the goat and the otter with rather weak but stable populations. Supplement the catalogue of scarcities the Sierra de Gata and what is Gineta.
To start the visit with the Throat of most advisable Hell is to us of going in the Centre of Interpretation of the Nature, since which we will be able to start several roads by the zone. It is located in the N-110 road which starts from Plasencia in direction of Boat of Avila. Between Cabezuela the Valley and of Jerte, in the place the Sand banks, we will take the direction of the camp-site by which we will cross the river little before arriving at the parking of the Centre of Interpretation.
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