Place: Cataluña, Zaragoza and Huesca.

Area: 75.000 has.

Origin: Its name is due to de place where it started to be cultivated.

Fruits: They are little and with a cluster appearance.

Tree: It has a middle vigour, open air, globular form and open branches. It is a very productive variety, it gets maturation quite early. It behaves fantastically in intensive olive culture, with densities lightly greater to de current ones (250-300 trees/Ha).

Oil: Its production is rather good, about 20%-22%, and its quality is excellent.

CORNICABRA

Place: Castilla la Mancha.

Surface: 300.000 has.

Origin: Mora de Toledo, where it is also knows as “cornezuelo”

Fruits: Its size is middle- great.

Tree: It presents a middle vigour and the branches, at its top.

Oil: Its production of about 22% is rather good.

EMPELTRE

Place: Aragón centre.

Surface: 65.000has.

Origin: Pedrola, Zaragoza. It is very ancient, and becomes from the catalan word “empelt” (graft), as it was carried from the Bajo Aragón. In Cataluña it is known as “aragonesa”.

Fruits: It is of middle size and its stem is very large; it gets an intense black colour when its ripening; is very sensible to the freeze. The fruits are not too much visible due to the dense foliage at its top.

Tree: It has a great development, straight air and their branches present a fort tendency to the vertical position.

Oil: It has a rather good quality, with a production of about 20%-23%; the K₇₂₀ is 0, 06 which points out its excellence.

HOJIBLANCA

Place: South of Córdoba province and bordering areas.

Surface: 220.000has.

Origin: Lucena, Córdoba.

Fruits: It has a quite good size, is very resistant to the natural fall, but able for mechanization. It is used, the same, for obtaining oil or as table olive.

Tree: It has vigour and straight air.

Oil: Its production is short, 18%-20%, but it has an excellent quality (K₂₇₀=0, 10) and it results sweet to the taste

LECHIN DE GRANADA

Place: Granada and Almería provinces.

Surface: 15.000has.

Fruits: They have a short size and its recollection is expensive, but they have very resistance to the loosening.

Tree: It is rather resistant to the cold and to the drought; it has a late maturation.

Oil: It has a pale yellow colour, sweet taste and a rather good quality.

LECHIN DE SEVILLA

Situation: Sevilla province, Córdoba and Cádiz.

Surface: 200.000has.

Fruits: They are rather good and are considered the pattern of the gordal sevillana.

Tree: It is vigorous and able to be cultivated in limestone sols.

Oil: It has a great quality.

MANZANILLA CACEREÑA

Place: Cáceres province and south of Salamanca province.

Surface: 60.000 has.

Origin: Its name is due to the province where it is cultivated.

Fruits: They have a very good size, and are widely desired for oxidized black olives.

Tree: It has a middle vigour.

Oil: It has a short production but an excellent quality.

MANZANILLA CARRASQUEÑA

Situation: Tierra de Barros, Badajoz province centre.

Fruits: It is the middle size and rather desired as green olive.

Tree: It has a middle vigour.

MANZANILLA SEVILLANA

Situation: All around Sevilla capital.

Origin: Dos Hermanas, Sevilla.

Fruits: They have a middle size and are very appreciated as green olives.

Tree: It has a little vigour.

Oil: Its production is of about 19%.

PICUAL

Situation: Jaén, Granada y Córdoba.

Surface: 300.000has. (1/3 of Spanish olives plantation)