Sunny Walkers 190622: Cortes de la Frontera - El Colmenar 2
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.83 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,437 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 1,808 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,619 ft
- TrailRank
- 49
- Min elevation
- 724 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 3 hours 20 minutes
- Time
- 4 hours 13 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2468
- Uploaded
- June 19, 2022
- Recorded
- June 2022
near Cortes de la Frontera, Andalucía (España)
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Itinerary description
This is a beautiful hike with a slight variation but you still need to catch the early train from San Roque to Cortes and do the hike to Colmenar in 4hrs to pick up the return train to San Roque.
Hopefully the train times will change in the future. This hike is well worth the effort though and don’t forget to pack you swimming gear for a nice cool dip before doing the last 3km into Colmenar.
A little bit about the hike.
We navigate the trail through the beautiful countryside meeting some local friends along the way taking in the beautiful scenery.
At the end of the track the Casa del Conde (Count's Mansion) appears in front of us.
A beautiful building long since abandoned by it’s occupiers.
From here we leave the trail heading towards the El Puente de los Alemanes (The German Bridge), Cortes de la Frontera (Unique Site).
The bridge is the entrance to the Canyon and the next mountain range built in 1918, although interestingly enough it´s not a bridge, but rather a structure which hides a water pipe nearly 2 m thick and 6 km long. It feeds the forebay of the Buitreras Hydroelectric Plant. The infrastructure wasn´t built by Germans, but rather by Belgians.
Hopefully the train times will change in the future. This hike is well worth the effort though and don’t forget to pack you swimming gear for a nice cool dip before doing the last 3km into Colmenar.
A little bit about the hike.
We navigate the trail through the beautiful countryside meeting some local friends along the way taking in the beautiful scenery.
At the end of the track the Casa del Conde (Count's Mansion) appears in front of us.
A beautiful building long since abandoned by it’s occupiers.
From here we leave the trail heading towards the El Puente de los Alemanes (The German Bridge), Cortes de la Frontera (Unique Site).
The bridge is the entrance to the Canyon and the next mountain range built in 1918, although interestingly enough it´s not a bridge, but rather a structure which hides a water pipe nearly 2 m thick and 6 km long. It feeds the forebay of the Buitreras Hydroelectric Plant. The infrastructure wasn´t built by Germans, but rather by Belgians.
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