Distance: 9 kilometres
Difficulty: Low
Duration: 4 hours approximately

Description of the route

This route leads us until a beautiful place where, according to account the legend, two lovers ended their life: a Muslim horseman and a Christian lady.

In the first part of the route we happen through a zone where the pulses like 'esparto or 'lastón' and the thistles, very resistant plants to the drought, predominate, although rushes expose the water existence.

We are crossing or overcoming different bridges on boulevards or precipices, constructed to protect the pipe, which leads the water of 'Cejo', of the avenues. The vegetation like rosebays, brambles, wild travelling blonde or carnation takes advantage of this contribution humidity.

When the footpath crosses the highway, we are in a zone of plasters, where we can observe characteristic vegetation. This highway would take to us, in about 2 kilometres of effort, to a viewpoint with ample views on the region.

To half of the route we can find rosemary, ‘esparto’, curry, malows, hermes oak... and an indication that leads us to the "viewpoint of the landscape", from where can admire the main mountain ranges of the Murcian southwest, the Guadalentín river and the great resistances of vegetation, with the predominance of ‘albaida’ or esparto, that according to the ground is reddish or yellowish respectively.

And from here we go finally direct to ‘El Cejo’, a vertical wall of arenaceous eroded by the wind, in which fossils of between 5 and 20 m.d.a. can be found . The predominant vegetation is the pine, along with 'jaguarzo morisco', marrubio, black hawthorn, rockrose, lentisco ‘cat nail’ and juniper.
Once we arrive at the skirts of Cejo, we are with a canalized source, coming from a water-bearing subterranean that arises to the surface of natural form. We have two alternatives here: to connect with the route of the boulevard of 'Rambla de Cambrón' or with the boulevard of 'Diecisiete Arcos'. In both cases, we will enjoy contemplating the vegetation characteristic of the boulevards, the erosive work of the water and the old 'cortijos' surrounded by traditional cultures.