Olvera, Animals & Plants
Olvera is especially known in wildlife for its noteworthy griffon vultures that inhabit the rock Zaframagon, A particular feature of the vultures is their bare head, devoid of feathers. This is surely to be a head with feathers, blood, and other fluids during feeding, and it would be difficult to keep clean because they feed on dead animals.
It should be noted that within the municipality are located the largest nesting griffon vultures in Andalusia and one of the most important in Europe within the natural reserve of “Rock of Zaframagon,” a club located in the northwest of the town.
Via Green and Rock of Zaframagon: In this fantastic tour you can see mountain landscapes worthy of land in which we live. The route of this road is characterized by a Mediterranean forest and vegetation, the flow of Guadalete, and junction with other channels, while the griffon vultures fly over the Rock of Zaframagon or agricultural landscapes and mountains.
Its vegetation characteristic is sclerophyllous (hard foliage), i.e. plants with small and hard leaves, capable of preventing water loss through transpiration during periods of prolonged water deficit.
Despite the presence of man since ancient times, Olvera retains a large mass of natural vegetation: oaks, cork oaks, gall oaks, carob trees, olive trees, elms, willows, poplars, and riparian forests.
There is a total of 90 species, not forgetting our typical olive trees that currently provide jobs for more than 85% of the workforce in the primary sector. There are a number of wildflowers such as poppies, jaramagos in the fields of Olvera.
Olvera is found mainly in two large, green areas, the greenway and the Rock of Zaframagon.
Among the most significant plant species found in oak, the tree most characteristic, perhaps, of the Mediterranean climate, the oaks are centuries old, resulting in the close relationship that has always existed between man and the mountain and the dependence between the two.
It is also very characteristic of the Mediterranean landscapes of Algarrobo, which are well-known and appreciated by the Arabs, who used the seeds of the carob (keratin) to measure the carat.
Also the oak, especially those “decorated” with the “guts,” are formations that developed in the hypertrophic buds and sheltering inside the larva of a fly. Vegetation along the rivers emphasizes the importance of tares in the lower regions of the river and are important for the animal community of the woods and river.
We may see some of the raptors that, while living in Zaframagon, often drift to other places that are not their territory. This is true of the vulture and eagle perdicera.