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The beautiful Fuente del Arca (Ark Fountain) is one of the historic springs of the Tajuña Valley. It lies along the Cordel de las Merinas, a notable drove road used during the transhumance era, and for centuries it was one of the main sources of drinking water for the town of Ambite. The basin itself is a small water garden, nestled in a pleasant setting of poplars, fig trees, willows, elms, and plants associated with springs, such as the maidenhair fern, a fern unique to the region.

The Tajo River basin in the province of Madrid is a basin of limestone, gypsum, marl and sandstone sediments. The limestone is hard and has resisted erosion over time, forming large plateaus and agricultural wastelands known as alcarrias. On the other hand, the gypsum and marl are much softer materials and environmental precipitation has created a curious landscape of slopes, cliffs and test hills that precipitate dissolved salts to the bottom of the plains, determining the reliefs, textures and highly specialised plant species, with numerous peninsular endemic species.

The Robledal de Brea is a valuable ecosystem of holm oak forests from La Mancha, with holm oaks, gall oaks and oaks with centuries-old specimens and great environmental quality due to their good state of conservation. At the entrance to the Monte is the Quegijo del Rebledal, tree number 315 in the catalogue of Singular Trees of the Community of Madrid, it is twenty metres high, three metres in circumference and has an estimated age of two hundred years.

The relief of the Tajuña valley is the result of a succession of horizontal sedimentation processes during cold and dry periods and a strong erosion by water and the elements, leaving the slopes with very steep slopes and devoid of vegetation, revealing the mixtures of limestone, marl, gypsum and the rest of the tertiary materials common in the relief unit of the Tajo basin.

The Arca spring is a historic spring in Ambite, located in the Arca ravine next to the Cordel de las Merinas. The structure of the fountain has been restored and with the benches and the shade of the trees it creates a welcoming space.

This source has an important historical significance, since the first inhabitants of the town settled around this spring, located in the heart of the alcarria.

There are numerous legends about the Palace of Ambite and its thousand-year-old and gigantic holm oak: one of them is the one that tells us that a young and beautiful princess lived captive in the Palace, who, while waiting for a knight to save her from captivity, left tears fall on an acorn, which germinated on earth, giving rise to the great oak.

Fountain on the outskirts of Ambite. Nice and quiet place.