Some of the most striking characteristics of the natural park include its unique high-mountain fauna, with marmots, chamois, mouflons, golden eagles and bearded vultures, and its great floral diversity, with flowering alpine meadows, high-mountain pastures and mountain pine forests. From a geological point of view, the surroundings of the Coma de Vaca valley help us understand glacial systems and their different substrata, within wide glacial valleys and deep river ravines, among other fascinating features.

It is a livestock park, and stockbreeding as a way of life springs out at you from every nook and every valley. Human presence in these high mountains dates back to time immemorial, and good proof of this is the modulation of the landscape due to the grazing of domestic livestock, including mainly cattle and sheep, but also horses and even pigs at some points in history.

Recent management of this high-mountain area as a natural park has made it possible, among other things, to establish eighteen itineraries to explore and understand all the advantages of this area, with its spectacular viewpoints. In an environment with a strong hiking tradition containing the first refuge opened in the Iberian Peninsula and some of the most emblematic Pyrenean paths, these itineraries help us appreciate the natural and cultural features of the park at their most striking. Go on, come for a walk!

The park is accredited with:

A collaboration commitment between the entity and the territory to work on responsible, sustainable and quality tourism management.

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  14.750ha