It is the best and largest surviving area of Iberian Mediterranean forest, with an enormous variety of plant species.

However, lynx have been sighted only intermittently in the area in recent years,[5] perhaps because of a shortage of rabbits, the main prey species.

[7] The Park is a Special Protection Area for birdlife,[8] and provides a home for the following notable species: In addition to the fauna and flora, Cabañeros has a third unique resource: its geology.

In towns such as Navas de Estena you can visit areas with fossils from more than 400 million years ago, in the Ordovician, when this territory was sea.

The fossilized remains of the activity of the oldest giant worm discovered to date have recently been found in the Boquerón de Estena.