Route: Cambil-Mata Bejid-Centro Visitantes Natural Park-Huelma-Arbuniel-Cambil
Description
A route to know endangered landscapes, this route crosses some of the most interesting forest masses of Sierra Magina, but also the mountain cerealist landscapes that remain hidden in this corner of Andalusia. It is a circular route that begins and ends in Cambil, so it can be done in both ways.
Datos de la ruta
ROUTE NAME
Ruta: Cambil-Mata Bejid-Centro Visitantes Parque Natural-Huelma-Arbuniel-Cambil
TRAIL TYPE
Circular
DIFFICULTY
Media
TOTAL DISTANCE (IN KILOMETERS) 44 km
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HUSO 30S
ESTIMATED TRAVEL TIME
1 h (sin incluir paradas)
ROAD SURFACE TYPE
Road
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Severity of the natural environment
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ACCESSIBILITY TYPE
TIME OF YEAR
All year round
SIGNALING
No
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Technical Description
In the first section we go through three points of interest: the corrijada of Mata Bejid, set of regional-style constructions, the Centre of Visitors of the Natural Park and the bosquet with meringeros area of the Sanctuary of the Fuensanta. In addition in this first part of the route we will find conveniently marked the beginning of the most interesting trails of the massif: Torres Ports and Ascension to the Magic Pico. To the Ctra. A-324 will circulate for 17 km to Huelma. We advise to stop at the Mata Bejid Visitors Center, which in addition to an interesting presentation on the environmental and cultural values of the Natural Park and an audiovisual, has a small shop and meringero area adapted for people with reduced mobility. The Visitors' Centre is open from Thursday to Sunday (check time per season).
You will continue to Huelma, where you can visit two Renaissance monuments that perfectly explain the grandiosity of this population, of these mountains in the 16th century: the Church of the Immaculate Conception, the work of Andrés de Vandelvira, and the castle that watches the people from above.
The second section of the route runs on horseback in the provinces of Granada and Jaén. From Huelma we'll take the Ctra. JA-4204 for four kms. We'll continue for 4 km. More for the Ctra. GR-3100. These are the landscapes of the mountain cereal, increasingly reduced in extension due to its low profitability, but that in times not so far away were the sustenance of the families of the area. The feeling that is perceived in the contemplation of these moors is of remoteness, of isolation, a rural world that is extinguishing.
Attention because you have to turn right on the Ctra. JA-3205, by which you will go down a steep slope towards Arbuniel. To this point you take 35 kms. since you left Cambil. Arbuniel is known for its water spring that feeds the irrigations of the area, through a system of waterfalls that remains active, and that passes through this small population belonging to the municipality of Cambil. The spring is surrounded by a little park, a magnificent place to rest.
From Arbuniel, and in only 8 km. from a road that passes through olive landscapes, we will reach Cambil by the Ctra. JA-3204. Cambil has sufficient restoration services. Do not stop walking through its urban town and be surprised with some Baroque facades, such as the Hospital (18th century).