Capital: Sevilla.

Area: 87,268 km²

Provinces: Sevilla, Huelva

Cadiz, Cordoba, Malaga

Jaen, Granada, Almeria

Andalucia is the second largest autonomous community in Spain. Its topography is marked by the depression of the Guadalquivir River Valley, which runs between two mountainous areas: the Sierra Morena mountains to the north and the Betica ranges to the south. The Guadalquivir river has created a fertile valley, its source is in the Sierra de Cazorla Natural Park in the east and its estuary in the south-west marshlands of Doñana National Park.

Fifty percent of the Andalucian territory is mountainous, one-third is found at an altitude above 600 metres, including an extensive high plateau and 46 peaks are higher than 1,000 metres. Eighteen percent of its territory is protected.

The Sierra Nevada mountain range holds the highest point in Andalusia, the main peaks Mulhacén and Veleta, both measure over 3,400 metres high.

Andalusia is also the meeting place between the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean sea at the strait of Gibraltar. The proximity between two continents at the straits, encourages migrating birds to collect together while waiting for good weather conditions to assist their journey outward and a resting place on the return. Enormous flocks of birds gather, allowing bird watchers to see species that can be difficult to observe in their normal terrain.

This map shows positions of nature parks in Andalucia. Listed below are the information pages about the parks.