Hiking Route El Cambrón

This route links the Recreative Area of the Dehesa del Bear with the Cambrón summit, a pétrea mole whose walls rise almost vertical on a pine sea. In the Dehesa del Bear we have a fountain with abundant flow, stone tables, small meadows and beautiful walnuts.

The road gently ascends along a narrow forest track, in the middle of a closed black pine forest with abundant oak and some complaints, from which you enjoy views that go from the valley of the Onsares to Calar del Mundo, valley of the head of the Guadalimar and saw of Alcaraz, in Albacete. In the end it climbs through a path of pastors that opens way between the rocks, to reach the impressive stone platform of the calar, typical carstic landscape of lapiaz with some hills, in which only few isolated black pine trees dare grow.

From the fire surveillance shed there is a superb panoramic from the manchegan plains of Ciudad Real and Albacete to Sierra Nevada. Crossing to the other end of the calar is another house belonging to Castilla-La Mancha. In the area there is plenty of the rocky plane and the piquirred chova, and we can see the flight of the lion vulture and the pilgrim hawk. You can also see flocks of muflons.

In the Collado de Las Lagunillas, we would continue to the village of El Bellotar, in the province of Albacete. Instead, we turn the track to the right. From here, the track remains without possible loss until it ends at the foot of the calar, which will have to go up a sidewalk.

At the end of the track, we take a path of shepherds to the left that goes up in zig@-@ zag. As we enter the plateau platform, the path loses some definition. We must follow the marks that we will find in stone milestones, pine trees and plates that mark the limits of the Natural Park.

We finally arrived at the Jaén fire site. It is highly recommended to cross the calar to the place in its eastern part, belonging to Castilla-La Mancha, where it will take about 15 'to arrive.