SAJA BESAYA NATURAL PARK

This 24 500 hectare area is situated on horseback between the valleys of the Saja and Besaya rivers. In fact, the Natural Park is only part of the immense national reserve of Saja, which covers almost the entire western half of Cantabria from the River Besaya to the Peaks of Europe. The forests of this protected area are a fine example of the Atlantic forests clean to humid Spain: oaks, beech near the river Saja and its tributary Argoza, birch. The wildlife is rich in deer, deer and wild boar. Large prairies, Les, keep livestock on day-parole. It is thanks to this form of exploitation that the Tudanca cow, the indigenous race of Cantabria, has been preserved. The Saja is a river where trout are fished. It seems enough to say the fisherman's prayer (on the line): " Give me, my God, a fish so great that I don't need to lie. "