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Los Reales de Sierra Bermeja

It is located in the southwest part of Malaga province and covers 1,236ha. Its highest point has 1,450m. Its name is due to its reddish hue. Rainwater has oxidised the iron and magnesium present in the rocks and the iron oxide has coloured the rock reddish-ginger.

Flora
The sierra's most notable tree is the Spanish fir, which only grows in Andalucía in this area and the neighbouring Serranía de Ronda. Also found here are maritime and Austrian pines, cork and kermes oaks, junipers and yew trees, some species of Mediterranean scrubland such as rosemary and dwarf fan palms and in the rockier there is an endemic species of garlic, allium rouyi.

Fauna
The most common mammals are the mountain goat, the roe deer and the Egyptian mongoose. The species of roe deer is unique to the sierras of Malaga and Cadiz provinces. It has adapted to a drier habitat and has evolved different physical features from other roe deer. There are also otters and wild cats and raptors such as booted eagles, Griffon vultures, sparrow hawks and eagle and long-eared owls.

There are many reptiles, including salamanders, toads, the Spanish terrapin (mauremys leproso), the Iberian worm lizard and the three-toed skink lizard.

Access
You can drive to near the top of Sierra Bermeja in under an hour. Take the road signposted Genalguacil from the traffic lights on the Estepona inner bypass (Avda de Andalucia), near the Mercadona supermarket. This is the MA 557.

About half an hour after leaving Estepona you will reach the "Peñas Blancas" pass. Turn left following the sign up to "Los Reales".

From the Peñas Blancas pass the road also leads down to Jubrique and to Genalguacil and on to the Gaucin – Ronda road. By going this way one can take an enjoyable half day drive from Estepona up to Sierra Bermeja and then returning by Gaucin and Manilva or by Ronda and San Pedro.