Description
The Birth of the San Juan River is located in the municipal term of Castillo de Locubín in the depression between the hills of the Sierrezuela and the Nava. This idyllic landscape, surrounded by vegetation, has in the abundance water that springs from the interior of the mountain its main characteristic. It is a place of great beauty, where several pools of crystalline water have been naturally formed, from which the groundwater springs, forming beautiful and intermittent columns of bubbles to the surface. In addition, we can observe small waterfalls and channels. It is accessed by the road C-3221, which links Castillo with the nearby town of Valdepeñas de Jaén.
Natural area of great beauty of water and tiled wires that invite to relax, turned into a recreational area, magnificent enclave to spend a pleasant day of countryside surrounded by nature, enjoy the environment, rest under the dense tree grove or take some hiking route. The space has a magnificent road with banks, tables, stationery, a small bar, children's playground and a large parking lot. This area attracts thousands of visitors from many municipalities, some very far away.
From the same pozas of the Nacimiento, a channel known by the neighbors by "el Caz," that allows to water the orchards of the river along several kilometres, and that rejoins the river in the village, next to the Roman bridge of Triana, where the permits for the fishing stop "El Carrizal," whose upper section is the same Birth of the San Juan River, were issued. The nearest pool to the river was used for the release of trout and fishing for both people with reduced mobility and children, learning the values and techniques needed to manage themselves within this sport and get their own catches (there is a children's fishing school in the town in the summer, taking advantage of school holidays).
The fishing ground was about 4 km. where roads have been enabled, making many parts of the banks practicable and facilitating the formation of pokes, where fish can find better shelter and more water.
Fishing could also be practiced in the Valdepeñas Bridge, where one of the most remarkable pozas of the fishing ground is formed, both by the number of trout and by the quality of the trout. The environment of Nacimiento del Río San Juan is characterized by a typical Mediterranean landscape, with the oak and the coscoja as protagonists. Other plants present are the lentif, the white jara, the thyme and the rosemary, but, without a doubt, the white lamo is the most abundant species in the Birth and on the river bank. In this we can see fertile gardens that make up the "Vega castillera," which acquires its maximum splendor in spring with the flowering of the cherry trees, very abundant in the area, irrigated from the very pods of the birth by "the Caz" mentioned above.
This area, owned by the City Council, houses a multitude of outdoor physical activities.
