The fire scorches twelve hectares of the El Navacillo estate in Parauta, where geographer José Gómez Zotano had planted over 500 trees and 314 pinsapos over twelve years. Only the house and about seven pinsapos have survived.
The forest fire that threatened Igualeja and Parauta for several days has caused severe damage to the El Navacillo estate, located next to the San Pedro-Ronda road (A-397). The fire has practically destroyed the twelve hectares of this property, according to Diario Sur. Only the house and about seven pinsapos growing around it have been saved.
The owner is José Gómez Zotano, a geographer and researcher at the University of Granada, who had dedicated twelve years to restoring this old agricultural estate that had been abandoned since the 1950s. When he acquired it in 2014, the land was covered with broom up to two meters high that made it impassable. Through clearing work, the opening of firebreaks, and the recovery of paths, he managed to transform it into a forested area.
Before the fire, Gómez Zotano counted 314 pinsapos of different ages and reforestation campaigns, some already one and a half meters tall. In addition, there were maples, yews, hollies, walnuts, chestnuts, oaks, cork oaks, service trees, alders, willows, and poplars. In total, more than 500 trees planted and about 2,000 specimens counting those that thrived naturally.
Some of those trees came from collective projects. An initiative by the Association for Public Paths of the Serranía de Ronda, funded by the
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