Sierra de Aracena

The Natural Park Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche located in the western part of the Sierra Morena, north of the province of Huelva ( Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia).

Gently rounded and usually between 400 and 900 m high ( its highest point is Castaño 962 m), it is an ideal and hardly discovered hiking area. The poor and very shallow soils are hardly suitable for farming, so that there will be extensive forests have been preserved. Chestnut groves and cork and holm oak forests dominate the landscape.

In the oak forests of semi-wild black pigs live (Spanish cerdos negros ), which are fattened with acorns. The hams and sausages of these animals are the main products of this region - the Jabugo ham are all Spaniards a term.

In addition, the residents of this area live from the sale of articles of cork, fruit (apples, pears, apricots) and, to a lesser extent, chestnuts. The repeatedly interspersed in these forests gardens are primarily self-sufficiency.