Hiking along the Colada Route of Navalrincón

We invite you to take the Collada de Navalrincón route, it is a practice of the sport of hiking in which you will be fascinated by all the landscapes in the area.

Our starting point will be at the Abraham Tower, a defensive wall of Arab origin located in the municipality of Retuerta del Bullaque. Located north of the province of Ciudad Real, with a population of one thousand inhabitants. The route lasts three hours and 9.5 kilometers the one way, having to add the return part. Its gradient is 50 meters and its difficulty is low, since all areas are flat and easy to navigate. Although in winter, due to its flatness, there are sections that can become waterlogged due to rain and make the route more complicated.

We will go through livestock trails, which are still used today by the surrounding towns. There will be areas belonging to the Cabañeros National Park, and you will be able to see characteristic landscapes of the area: Mediterranean and dry lands. We will walk along the limits of the Bullaque River, a tributary of the Guadiana River. You will enter a beautiful natural ecosystem and you will be able to see the fauna in its own habitat, such as deer, wild boar, birds of prey...

Throughout the route you will be able to see the wonderful vegetation that covers the paths of the route, highlighting holm oaks, torvisco, strawberry trees, thyme, and in the humid areas vegetables such as peonies. Once located outside the National Park enclosure, we will observe theSierra del Chorito and the Sierra Ventilla, notable for their rocky characteristics.

To finish the tour, we will travel near the Casa de los Palillos and also through asphalt areas.