To the north of the province of Huesca, in the Aragonese Pyrenees, lovers of the high mountain can enjoy a place as natural as spectacular, since that is the enclave of a Unique National Park in Spain: Oddesa and Monte Lost.
Four main valleys (old, brief, Ordesa and Escuaín) and a set of peaks, among which Monte Lost stands out, become a film scenario in which different ecosystems coexist. A natural paradise in which we find meadows, huge forests, incredible throats, glaciersperpetual snows and a unique karst landscape forged for thousands of years.
He Ordesa and Monte Lost National Park house a multitude of different plant communitiesdue to the accused slope and the presence of different orientations and microclimatic conditions. It has about 50 exclusively Pyrenean endemisms, and most of them survive in rocky habitats such as gestures, cliffs and stony pastures. The ones that inhabit the limestone roquedos, with about 12 Pyrenean endemisms.
An influx of public that does not benefit the Ordesa and Monte Lost National Park
The Minister of Environment and Tourism of the Aragonese Government, Manuel Blasco, has admitted that guaranteeing a quality and safe stay inside the National Park of Ordesa And Monte Lost requires reassessing the current capacity of visitors simultaneouslyespecially in the sector of Ordesa
Blasco has made this statement during an appearance made in the commission of the Branch of the Courts of Aragon, at the request of the groups of Cha and the PSOE for Inform about the Mobility Plan in the National Park that is expected to be presented in the upcoming dates and investments launched to improve communication infrastructure inside this protected territory.
He explained that when he assumed the position he considered “rare” that the Ordesa National Park would lack emergency and mobility plansdespite the fact that in 2022 the need to allocate European funds for its elaboration, as well as a study of reception capacity, was valued.
The political head has stressed that all these documents are currently underway, with the objective of relate its contents and thus favor an improvement in the quality of visits But also of the safety of tourists, park workers and the inhabitants of the municipalities of the environment.
In his opinion, the reception capacity must guarantee visits and conservation of the natural environment of this protected territory. In this regard, he has announced the imminent start -up of a website that will inform in real time to the potential visitors of the state of accesses to the interior of the park and if the number of people exceeds that of those allowed, as well as an application in autumn that will offer these same data.
He has admitted to line followed that during the plan’s information process with the population of the municipalities of the environment, some sectors opposed to provide such information in real time, for Avoid dissupping visitors to move to the area on the days of collapse and attract populations to consume.
«People cannot consult from home if you can get to Ordesa, and there were interests so that this information did not occur“, Added the political manager, who has claimed to have heard in some meetings that” if they cannot go up, they will come to the peoples and spend. “
A capacity that must be reassess
The counselor explained that the Current regulations allows simultaneous access to this National Park of 3,675 people: 1,800 in the sector Ordesa, the one that currently raises greater difficulties due to the pressure it supports; 900 in Pineta, 650 in Añisclo and 325 in Escuaín.
Blasco has influenced the need for order and improve accesses to Ordesa so that they can be used as evacuation routesespecially in times in which the majority access form They are cars and vans that cause high environmental degradation.
“We need urgent measures to give answers,” added the counselor in the commission, during which he has signed up for the possibility that the maximum capacity in the sector of Ordesa 1,600 people are reduced simultaneously.
Communication systems and emergency plans
The counselor explained that the PEmergency LAN in process of elaboration detected a total of 41 potential risks Inside the National Park, four of them high risk: failures in communications systems; forest fires; hillside movements on the Añisclo canyon; and floods in the Pineta Valley.
Regarding this point, he explained that one of the Main priorities is to improve and reinforce the current communications system To have effective operation throughout the year, both telephone coverage and the Tetra Coordination System of Emergency Systems.
In this regard, he highlighted the investments undertaken in 2024 in the repeaters of the Ordesa area to avoid long periods of time in which they stopped working for energy insufficiency through batteries.
In his request for appearance to the counselor, the spokesman for Cha, José Luis Soro, Ha valued the worker developed by the department regarding mobilitybut he has reproached him that urgent measures would not have been advanced before the foreseeable mass arrival of tourists during Holy Week and other close festive bridges.
In turn, the socialist parliamentarian Leticia Soria, after referring to Ordesa as «One of the great jewels of our tourism“, It has been interested in the State and the development of investments launched at the Escalona Interpretation Center or the forecasts made to keep the access road to the Añisclo canyon in service,” a basic route that the residents of the populations of the area need. ” EFE/ECOTICIAS.com