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cuadro RÍO LUCHENA

ROUTE 1

Distance (roundtrip): 15 kilometres
Difficulty: Lower-medium
Duration: 4 hours approximately
Route: Exit of the Youth Hostel Casa Iglesias to 'Ojos del Rio Luchena'

Description of the route:

• Departure Point: Youth Hostel ‘Casa Iglesias’.
• Direction: La Parroquia by a forest track of comfortable transit
• Crossing to the left once completed the first 700 meters of route.
• Ascent that culminates in the ‘Collado de la Carrasca’ where we will find a new crossroad and will choose the left direction
• Reduction of something more than 4 kilometres by a forest track that passes compares to the precipice of 'Los Machos'
• Way to the left, in the direction of one old house belonging to a mining operation, at the moment left, where the slope begins until the old House of the Hidrogafic Confederation of the Safe or ‘Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura’, place where the signaling of this route finishes.
• The birth of ‘Rio Luchena' is to 200 metres of distance of this house.

Points of Landscaping Interest:

• Panoramic Vista in kilometric point 2.300
• Panoramic Vista in the kilometric point 5.800

Points of Geologic Interest:

Profile of the ground, walls and rocky limestone-dolomíticos in kilometric point 4.500 to 4,800.

ROUTE 2

Distance (roundtrip): 14 kilimetres
Difficulty: Lower -medium
Duration: 4 hours approximately
Route: Exit of the tourist shelter 'Casa Iglesias' to the 'Hoya del Navajo de las Yeguas'

Description of the Route:

• Departure Point: Youth Hostel 'Casa Iglesias'.
• Direction: ‘La Parroquia’ by one crushes forest of comfortable transit.
• Crossing to the left once completed the first 700 meters of route.
• Ascent that culminates in the 'Collado de la Carrasca' where we will find a new crossroad and will choose the right direction.
• Ascent by track, throughout 3,400 metrer, until arriving at the wide foot from fire-resistant ones located to the right of the way, in kilometric point 6.100.
• Deflection to the fire-resistant right and ascent of until the 'Morrón de la Peguera’.
• Reduction of the fire-resistant ones, about 200 meters
• Deflection to the right and arrival to the ‘La Hoya del Navajo de las Yeguas’, point where it concludes the route.

 

Points of Landscaping Interest:

• Panoramic Vista in kilometric point 2,300
• Panoramic Vista in kilometric point 4,600

Points of Geologic Interest:

‘La Hoya del Navajo de las Yeguas’ is a place in depression and of singular beauty, surrounded by four peacks: 'La Morra del Tobacco' (1,383 metress), 'El Morrón de la Peguera (1,328metres), 'La Morra de los Trancos (1,3078 metres) and 'La Morra del Cocón (1,363 mwtres).

ROUTE 3

Distances: 12.6 kilometres
Difficulty: Low-medium
Duration: 3, 30-4 hours approximately
Route: Exit of the Youth hostel 'Casa Iglesias' to the 'Cabezo de la Cruz'

Description of the Route:

• Departure Point: Youth hostel 'Casa Iglesias'.
• Direction: ‘La Parroquia’, by one crushes forest of comfortable transit that we will not leave until to have carried out the first 4,000 metres of route.
• Crossroad in 'Collado de Carasoles'. In this point we will choose the direction that indicates to us towards the delegation of Taibena. '
• Deflection to the right in 5.300 kilometric point and beginning of the ascent to the 'Cabezo de la Cruz'(1,314 metres) through fire-resistant ones, not very visible, which will take to us at the end of the route.

Points of Landscaping Interest:
Panoramic Vista in kilometric point 5,300.

Points of Geologic Interest:
Opened-air Mining operations of limestone

 

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