Protected natural areas
Las Médulas
Las Médulas has 40 km² of forest, mostly holm oak (58.8% of the tree cover), between 404 and 1,185 m above sea level. All of it lies in the sub-humid bioclimatic zone. In the latest run, scoring best here: Summer cep, Death cap and Caesar's mushroom.
Elevation
654 m
404–1,185 m
Wooded ground
40 km²
Holm oak · 58.8%
Climate
Sub-humid
100% of the area
What comes up here
Ordered by the area's mean index on the last day computed. The mean says whether the drive is worth it; the peak says whether some corner of it is.
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as of 15 October 2026The bar is the area's mean index; the tick is the highest it reaches in any corner of it.
- mean 8.4 · peak 23.3
- mean 7.9 · peak 23.3
- mean 7.3 · peak 18.8
- mean 7.3 · peak 25.3
- mean 7 · peak 19.9
- mean 6.5 · peak 21.9
- mean 6.4 · peak 23.3
- mean 5.4 · peak 23.9
- mean 5.1 · peak 15.3
Show the other 23
- mean 4.5 · peak 14.7
- mean 4.5 · peak 12.4
- mean 4.4 · peak 16.8
- mean 2.9 · peak 10.9
- mean 2 · peak 8
- mean 1.6 · peak 9.8
- mean 1.6 · peak 5.3
- mean 1.4 · peak 6.8
- mean 1.3 · peak 7.1
- mean 1.2 · peak 5.1
- mean 0.9 · peak 4.3
- mean 0.9 · peak 4.6
- mean 0.8 · peak 2.6
- mean 0.6 · peak 3.5
- mean 0.5 · peak 4
- mean 0.4 · peak 2.1
- mean 0.3 · peak 1.5
- mean 0.2 · peak 2.1
- mean 0.2 · peak 2.4
- mean 0.2 · peak 2.6
- mean 0.1 · peak 1
- mean 0.1 · peak 1.5
- mean 0 · peak 0.1
Forest
40 km² of forest
- Holm oakQuercus ilex58.8% · 55% canopy
- Sweet chestnutCastanea sativa12.8% · 51% canopy
- Maritime pinePinus pinaster10% · 43% canopy
- Pyrenean oakQuercus pyrenaica7.8% · 60% canopy
- Monterey pinePinus radiata3.7% · 62% canopy
- Scots pinePinus sylvestris2.4% · 30% canopy
- Black poplarPopulus nigra2.4% · 65% canopy
- Hybrid poplarPopulus x canadensis1.5% · 63% canopy
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