Extremadura Guide Eng 2016

SPA C EDILLO - T AJO I NTERNACIONAL

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LOCATION The Cedillo-Tajo Internacional Natural Park is located to the West of the province of Cáceres, bordering on Portu- gal. The boundaries of this area are parallel to the Tajo and Sever Rivers, occupying a narrow strip of land which includes all the limits of their courses, except for the last stretch of the Tajo River, where limits widen and spread out throughout the dehesas and slopes that fall towards the Sever, thus taking up the whole of Cedillo municipal district. The Natural Park is in contact with the protected area of Portugal, where the Tajo River is regarded as a Nature Reserve. In Extremadura, This Natural Park borders on the Special Area of Conservation known as “Sierra de San Pedro” as well as on the Sites of Community Importance known as “Río Erjas”, “Llanos de Brozas”, “Rivera de Aurela” and “Riveras de Carbajo y Calatrucha”, thus revealing the significance of the nature values that exist in this privileged corner of the region. Because of its flatness, the Natural Park of Cedillo-Tajo Internacional only takes up 13263 hectares, which spread throughout the municipal districts of Cedillo, Herrera de Alcántara, Santiago de Alcántara, Valencia de Alcántara, Carbajo, Membrío and Alcántara.

ESPAÑA

ALCÁNTARA

CEDILLO HERRERA DE ALCÁNTARA

RÍO TAJO

SANTIAGO DE ALCÁNTARA

CARBAJO

RÍO SALOR

SIERRA DE SAN PEDRO

MEMBRÍO

RÍO ALBURREL

PORTUGAL

RÍO SEVER

SALORINO

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VALENCIA DE ALCÁNTARA

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR VISITS

Sailing in this reservoir is only possible between the 1st of January and the 31st of July, a measure that was taken especially with a view to protecting the birds that nest by banks, since they are very sensitive to the presence of human beings. The use of motorboats or boats without a motor requires permission by the State Environment Office.

By virtue of the Wild Birds Directive (79/409/ECC), this valuable cross-border zone was declared a Special Pro- tection Area in 2000 by Decree 232/2000, by means of which new areas were declared Special Protection Areas in Extremadura. In 2006, this place has been declared as Natural Park.

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