Like a stone ring embracing the almost perpetual albino snow of its peaks, the Sierra Nevada Nature Park spills out in search of the holes in the plateau and Granada, the “tahas” of Las Alpujarras and the peat bogs of Lecrín, an outburst of water, forests and abrupt formations that are home to the most spectacular life.
While at great heights the formations result in a succession of hills exceeding 3,000 metres above sea level, on lower levels the rock presents steeper forms, with cliffs and crags like the aguja del Trevenque or the ridges of Dornajo, and the spectacular narrow canyons known as the cahorros of Monachil. In the south-eastern part, where rainfall and temporary rivers are born of the storms, the relief features gullies and gorges that give way to arid Tabernas Desert landscapes.