Saja Regional Game Reserve

Map with the boundaries of the mountains and location of the reserve. The regional hunting reserve Saja is a game reserve located in the western third of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria in a region ranging from the Besaya River to the Picos de Europa and from the border with Palencia to the Sierra del Escudo de Cocker. Although it was created on June 2, 1966, an antecedent can be found in the ministerial conservation order of March 9, 1948. In 2006 the original name was changed to "Saja Chase Regional Reserve". >

This reserve covers an area of ​​more than 180,000 hectares, most of which corresponds to a mountain of public utility (124,371 ha) and covers more than a third of the Autonomous Community of Cántabra. From these data it is extracted that it is greater reserve of Spain by its extension. In addition it maintains a high degree of conservation that has led to more specifically protect a wide extension of its territory, thus we find: places of community importance of river Deva, river Saja, river Deva, river Nansa, Sierra del Escudo de Cabuérniga, High valleys of the Nansa and Saja and Alto Campoo, Camesa river; four ZEPA, the Saja-Besaya Natural Park and part of the Picos de Europa National Park.

Within the reserve, the hunting of a good number of species is regulated, among which are the deer, chamois and roe deer and wild boar, a hound and a hare in the game hunting. sporadically beating wolf. Notes

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