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El Puente de Tierra

, Cabra del Santo Cristo

It is located on the northern slope of the Rambla del Bizco in a partially flat area, broken by innumerable ramblas of very difficult orography.

As we approach the Land Bridge, the surroundings turn into dilapidated, lunar-like landscapes. The immediate environment is full of hills and mountains.

Landscape very contrasted with the alternation and mixture of wooded patches (mainly pine forests) and whitish areas with hardly any vegetation. Wild vegetation and numerous repopulations of different ages. There is a wide range of shrubs and grasses adapted to the lack of rain and located in one of the most torrid areas of the Sierra Mágina region.

In the area we will be able to see around us and on the floor of the road itself, the effects that water erosion produces on geological materials such as those that surround us. It is a series of deep holes that communicate with each other. When rainwater circulates on the surface, it soon seeps through these holes, but carries many suspended particles, sometimes forming real mud flows. It is easy to imagine that the erosive power increases more and more, with which the holes join each other to form larger ones. When it affects a road, the risk to traffic is evident, whether by car, bicycle or even on foot. Precisely in this process is the origin of the formation of the Land Bridge.

The process occurs on soft materials such as marl, loamy sands or loamy clay sands. If above them there was a deposit of somewhat more compact and resistant materials, it is possible that it would not erode as easily, leaving a package of materials suspended in the air and taking a small bridge. The objective of this route is to verify in situ the extraordinary dimensions of this phenomenon.

From various points on this route it is possible to see the upper part of the Land Bridge, but it is very difficult to differentiate. Through the gap, at the bottom we will see another small bridge in formation.

Due to the nearby environment there are other similar morphologies that cannot be seen from this point, but are much less spectacular than the one that stands before us.

Finally remember that we are on Cretaceous marls, a period in which marine animals such as anmonites, belemnites, and other gastropods lived. Which we can find fossilized and pyritized on the ground.

Warning: It is a very unstable terrain, the age of the landscape that we see is not excessive because this type of land changes its morphology with relative ease, it is not that the Bridge is going to fall on us, the area will surely continue as it is for many more years , many centuries, but it is better not to go over or under, or get close to any of the many vertical cliffs that are throughout the area.

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