Tablas de Daimiel National Park
Tablas de Daimiel National Park is a wetland on the La Mancha plain, a mainly arid area in the province of Ciudad Real. With an area of about 3,000 hectares, the park is the smallest of Spain's fifteen national parks. The protected area is in the process of being expanded outside the original nature reserve to include neighbouring dryland farming areas. The expansion is part of efforts to improve the condition of the wetland, which has been damaged by over-exploitation of water resources.
Tablas de Daimiel
Bridge in Tablas de Daimiel National Park
Tablas de Daimiel
Tablas de Daimiel, Ciudad Real
La Mancha is a natural and historical region in the Spanish provinces of Albacete, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, and Toledo. It is an arid but fertile plateau that stretches from the mountains of Toledo to the western spurs of the Cuenca hills, bordered to the south by the Sierra Morena and to the north by Alcarria. The La Mancha historical comarca constitutes the southern portion of Castilla-La Mancha autonomous community and makes up most of the present-day administrative region.
La Mancha's traditional windmills like these, still standing at Campo de Criptana, were immortalized in the novel Don Quixote.
Pastures and sheep in La Mancha
Landscape of the fields in La Mancha
The Spanish imperial eagle can be found mostly in the region of La Mancha.
