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El Surar, Valencia

Forests of SpainGeography of the Province of ValenciaNatural parks of SpainTourism in the Valencian CommunityVall d'Albaida
Track through Pla de Junquera 6, El Surar, Pinet, Valencia
Track through Pla de Junquera 6, El Surar, Pinet, Valencia

El Surar (in Spanish, El Paraje Natural Municipal de El Surar) is a Municipal Natural Park located in the east of Spain, within the comarca of Vall d'Albaida in the autonomous community of Valencia; it is shared between the municipalities of Pinet and Llutxent. El Surar is the southernmost cork oak forest in Valencia. It consists of a series of open copses that are the remains of more extensive, older forests. Unlike the cork forests located further to the north of the Valencian Community, it has the singularity of inhabiting soils evolved from calcareous subsoils. Cork oak forests usually occur in siliceous soils, and as such its presence in El Surar is explained by the intense rainfall recorded in the area, which washes away the soil and results in high levels of decarbonisation and acidification. El Surar was declared Municipal Natural Park by Generalitat Valenciana on March 4, 2005.The Municipal Natural Park of Parpalló-Borrell is to be found in the adjacent municipality of Barx.

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N 38.98 ° E -0.3 °
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46758
Valencian Community, Spain
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