Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
The site contains extensive areas of dehesa areas and also grasslands and scrub. A small reservoir lies within the site. The main human activities are livestock-farming, hunting and cork harvesting (`Other' land-use).
An important site for raptors, steppic birds and wintering
Grus grus.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The main threats are from infrastructural development projects including new roads, a gas pipeline, golf course and a reservoir.
National Partial
International Partial10,570 ha of IBA covered by Natural Park (Cornalvo, 10,570 ha). 10,570 ha of IBA covered by Special Protection Area (Embalse de Cornalvo y Sierra Bermeja, 10,570 ha).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Montánchez mountain range-Cornalvo reservoir (Spain). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/montánchez-mountain-range-cornalvo-reservoir-iba-spain on 25/12/2024.
