Distance: 9 kilometres
Difficulty: Low-medium
Duration: 3 hours

Description of the route:

We will initiate our route in the 'Rambla de Los Plazas', located at the feet of the tourist apartments of the House of the Friar or 'Casa del Fraile'. In this Mediterranean typical boulevard, sometimes stony but sandy to a large extent, we will find olive trees and traditional zones of growing.

Once we pass the precipice of the Tree-lined avenue or ‘ Barranco de la Alameda’ and descried the House of the Wood, we take a footpath to the left that, after a strong slope, will leave us in the top of a hill. Continuing by this footpath and after happening through waved cabezos, we will find an underbrush made up of coscoja, holm oak and pine, which is thicker in the face of the shade. If we have luck we will be able to observe some ‘perdicera’ eagle, wild boar, sprocket wheel or travelling hawk.

The footpath that little by little is becoming a small way, and per moments stony, will take us to the 'Cueva del Agua'. The 'Cueva del Agua' is one of the two great cavities of the Talayón. It has three differentiated zones: the zone of the crowns, the zone of hell and the paradise of the lakes of the entrance.

In this activity of hiking, we will only see the first lake, to which it is acceded by a natural well that has been treated artificially to have better access, since the water of this cave has been used from years for the irrigation of the adjacent fields.

Upon the first lake there is an artificial well by which the deposited water was extracted. In spite of the amount of accumulated water, there is no inner birth. It is one of the filtrations that arrives to it from the great mount that is located above.
All the bottom of the lakes, not only the great ones of the entrance but also the medium or almost the pools of the final zones, are gourst, depressions of greater or smaller depth that, with running of the time, has been covered of impermeable limestones and, through the dripping, they have filled. It is only seen be born the water in the boulevard next to the cave, when the lakes overflow and arrive at the permeable zones.

From always, the 'Cueva del Agua' has waked up the interest of the people of the place. At speleologist level, it has been a cave highly explored by several groups, in special the Speleologist Group from Lorca that finished its exploration and later topography. It is one of the caves that always have been used for the initiation of the young speleologist people, given to their strong, great water characteristics, mud, small rooms, zone of deck pipes of high difficulty and corners of incalculable value. It is important to mention specially the room of the paradise, located in one of the final zones and to which some times it is possible to be acceded habitually swimming or diving.