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Welcome to Oretani Wildlife

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_Oretani Wildlife will provide you with all your needs to enjoy this vast but understated and rarely visited region of Castilla La Mancha in the heart of Spain. Birding is our profession. We pride ourselves on bringing you to the best birding and wildlife areas the region has to offer. Allow us to guide you to the wilds, the colours, the sights and tastes of a region that is the heartland of wildlife and history in Spain.

Castilla La Mancha, renowned as the land of Cervantes, Don Quijote and windmills it has a lot more to offer. 

Castilla La Mancha has culture, wilderness and unparalleled birdwatching and wildlife. It has wetlands, steppe, dehesa and mountains. Each habitat has its own representative species and is the only autonomous community in Spain to have two national parks, Las Tablas de Daimiel and Cabañeros, both of which are in the region of Ciudad Real. With large populations of birds of prey, waders, steppe birds and migrants there is a richness of avian life few other places in Spain can offer. It is also one of the last refuges of the critically endangered Iberian Lynx.

It has a rich cultural history stretching back to the pre-Roman times of the Iberian and Celtic races who first settled here; it has the remains of Roman towns and villas; mediaeval castles reaching into the skies from times past when the Moors and Christian knights fought here; palaces from the days of conquistadores and great Mediterranean naval battles.


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