nature
Birdwatching areas
Las Peñas de Ranero, to the west of Armañon, are the most remarkable landscape in the whole of the Karrantza Valley, one of the municipalities that make up part of this Protected Nature Reserve.
In the eastern part of another municipality, Trucios-Turtzioz, we find the large karren of Los Jorrios, whose lower slopes are blanketed with a holm-oak forest. This jewel of the north east of Bizkaia is a group of mountainous elevations which create a rugged limestone landscape formed by a rich mosaic of habitats. Secular cattle activity has formed grazing land, pastures and hedges, but there is also room for indigenous woodlands, such as Cantabrian holm-oak, oak and beech forests.
It is precisely the coexistence of this rich mosaic which allows a rich and varied presence of birds, which combines ornithological communities in rocky, moorland, grassland and forest environments. The Egyptian vulture, the red-billed chough, the Dartford warbler, the sparrow hawk and the black woodpecker can all be spotted.
Protection designation: Natura 2000 Network - Natural Park
Birding routes:
- HOLM-OAK FOREST OF SOPEÑA. El Suceso recreation area (Bizkaia)
- ALENTOURS DE POZALAGUA. Armañón Natural Park Information Centre (Bizkaia)