Trail Viewpoint Reand
Description
This is a brief tour along with the Jandula dam, also known as La Lancha, which in itself is a monumental construction of a high heritage and, of course, economic and social value. It is located in an agribusiness and historically depopulated area of the interior of Sierra Morena. To the value of the Mediterranean mountain that naturally dominates it, this great artificial lake adds diversity to the landscape. The path is a follow-up to another one with a greater path that reaches the dam from the Scoriales.
Datos de la ruta
ROUTE NAME
Sendero Mirador del Rey
TRAIL TYPE
Trail
DIFFICULTY
Baja
TOTAL DISTANCE (IN KILOMETERS) 1,2 km
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Stretch of asphalt or concrete:
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Section of track, forest road, or dry watercourse:
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Trail section:
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Sections of livestock trails:
HUSO 30S
ESTIMATED TRAVEL TIME
ROAD SURFACE TYPE
Trail
ELEVATION CHANGE
14mm
14mm
DIFFICULTY. RATING ACCORDING TO THE MIDE METHOD
2
MEANS
Severity of the natural environment
2
ITINERARY
Route guidance
2
DISPLACEMENT
Difficulty moving about
1
EFFORT
Amount of effort required
ACCESSIBILITY TYPE
On foot
TIME OF YEAR
All year round
SIGNALING
No
MORE INFORMATION
TUNNELS
STEEL VIADUCTS
METAL WALKWAYS
WATER POINTS
PONTOONS
GUARD BOOTHS AND BARRIERS
SWITCHMAN'S CABINS
CYCLABILITY
RECREATIONAL OR SPORTS AREAS NEAR THE TRAIL
AID STATIONS
LINKS TO OTHER TRAILS
SHELTERS
RECOMMENDATIONS
It is recommended to wear safe drinking water and clothing and adequate footwear. Take special care of possible falls. This path can be realized throughout the year. In summer, due to the special conditions of height, the insolation is very strong which, together with the lack of shadows, requires important solar protection.
OTHER INFORMATION OF INTEREST (ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORICAL-CULTURAL, GEOLOGICAL-ECOLOGICAL)
- Granitic closed.
- Embalse of important dimensions with variable levels.
- The monumental Jandula dam, designed by the modernist architect Casto Fernández Shaw and associated village.
- granite quarry used for the construction of the dam and the village.
Technical Description
La Lancha is a village that rose for the construction of the Jandula dam, started in 1927 and completed four years later. It was inhabited by about 3,000 people in the most active moments. It is about 30 kilometres from Andújar in an unpopulated territory where malaria was endemic at that time. There is only one unasphalted road that reaches the village, the JF-5004, which comes from Los Escoriales for a journey also offered as a path marked by the Natural Park.
Already in La Lancha we must continue on the same road down to the dam, where the path begins. If we have reached here by car, we will leave it in this place to take a look at the Jandula reservoir first from the dam itself, and then make the short path. It has been almost eighty years since this great artificial lake was created, where the waters of the Jandula River are reinstated along about twenty kilometres from its channel, flooding its enclosed valley. The reservoir has a capacity of 322 Hm3 with a water sheet of 1,231 hectares. A new piece introduced in the geography of the saw which, of course, has had an important impact on the landscape, ecology and local and regional economy.
The variety of the local fauna, which we can see with some ease, is a clear example of such an induced transformation. Cormorans, with their lustful black plumages and bronze, are already common and it is not rare to see ducks or garzas. In the water there are species such as black-bass, carp or barb, and also a fish that is only found in these waters and tributaries of the Jandula, called the bogardilla.
From the side of the dam to which we have reached, we will take the road that goes south on the left side of the river, a hundred meters above it. Its appearance gives us clues on the landscapes before the construction of the dam. As we move away from the dam we gain perspectives on it, and we better explain its consideration as a historical monument.
Two hundred metres from the beginning of the road we find a stretch enlarged by a excavation at the foot of the village, which is nothing other than the granite quarry that was opened and exploited only for the construction of the dam and other works related to it, case of the village. Part of the image of integration of this great wall into the landscape is due to its stone coating of the place itself. We can see around some block of granite that was left unused, and also some other witnesses of the agitated activity during the construction of the dam. A little later, the road is close at a point where we end our route.
