Bio and geodiversity...

This land of enchantments and hiddings place hides unmatched natural beauties. Shelter of animals in extinguishing ways the region of the Douro is of the places richest in fauna and flora of all the country.

Since mammals the reptiles, the fan of animals that only exist in this region is vast. The wolf-Iberian one is species that more it is distinguished, being able to meet in some parks, as in the Natural Park of the Alvão, or in the Natural Park of the International Douro. Corço, the cat-brave one, the rat of Cabrera and the wild boar are other mammals that if can find in the region. In the tunnels and abandoned mines it is still possible to find colonies of cave dwellers bats.

The robbery birds are abundant in the region. The stork-black color, the vulture of Egypt, the eagle-Real, grifo, the açor and the milhafre-Real is only some of the birds that if can find in the Natural Park of the International Douro. In this place reptiles in ways of extinguishing with the one cágado-of-carapaça-estriada and the viper-cornuda also exist.

The waters are dominated by fish as panjorca, the bard-common one, boga of the North and Escalo of the North, that partilham its habitat with the mole-of-water, that persists in the Natural Park of the Alvão, among others local, and with the otter, gift in region.

These animals not only depend on the protection human being, but also on the rich ecosystem where they live. The abundance of vegetation, the raised quality of the water and the great variety of available fruits with different times of harvest offer an excellent quality of life to these species, whose survival can only be threatened by the activity human being.

The Douro is a land of contrast, something that if realize when sighting the mounts, the valleys and the plains that create a so diversified morphology. The rocky mountains contain little lower vegetation and more tripping and temperatures, being more citizens the strong winds and to the snow fall. To the measure that in we approach them to the valley, and that the temperatures increase, the vegetation it goes being denser.

The region of the Douro is rich in shale, type of rock used in the construction of walls that support the platforms where if they find the vines, that serve to prevent the erosion of ground. However, enclaves and graníticos outcrops appear for times, creating steep edges that arrive to reach one hundred meters of height more than.