Sierra de Atapuerca

Sierra de Atapuerca is in the 'Bureba Corridor', a geographic passage linking the Ebro and Duero River basins, with the mountains of Sierra de la Demanda to the south and the foothills of the Cantabria Range to the north. This is a privileged bio-geographic location, a confluence of Mediterranean, Atlantic and continental climatic influences, which has permitted the coexistence of a wide variety of flora and fauna species. Groups of Homo antecessor, heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis and sapiens have walked, slept, hunted, gathered and eaten across the beautiful landscapes that form Sierra de Atapuerca. Horses, rhinos, bison, fallow deer, wild boars, deer, bears, tigers, lynxes, lions and many other animals have shared forests of evergreen oak, juniper, English oak, chestnuts, birch , beech, pine trees and riverine coppices...

The Sierra is still very much alive. Now it is a place that is inhabited and visited, where professional guides reconstruct its history for visitors, and where our research team is striving to understand the lives of the human beings that lived here long ago.