It is a very quiet area, surrounded by endless olive fields, where there are fountains with drinking water, barbecues, tables and seats. In the river you can practice, in season, fishing of the common trout and the barb, or practice swimming.

The landscape surrounding this equipment, located on the rest of a pecuary road, is typically olive-growing and invites hiking. The facilities, with a capacity for a hundred people, have areas for tents, roofed dining, kitchen, toilets and showers.

They have in the area that in the 15th century, when Isabel La Católica was traveling to the conquest of Granada from Córdoba, it reached this point where Guadalquivir was so grown that it did not allow its passage. In one night, according to the book, his gentlemen raised this robust bridge that allowed him to reach Baza and Guadix.

The place is beautiful by itself: the bridge is surrounded by fig trees and wild rosals. And in the paths around it you can observe boj, strawberries and hazelnuts.

On the right side is joined the Maillar stream - with another beautiful stone bridge - which makes in rainy years the place an authentic vergel and a very busy bathing area.

We suggest:

• Make walking some (or all) part of the road that leads to the birth of the Guadalquivir. They are about 11 km across the Navahondona- Guadahornillos Reserve Area, the most protected area of the Natural Park.

In Cazorla take the Sierra road (A-319) until the crossing known as the Empalme del Valle, 17 km. Turn right on the JF-7092 road and after passing the bridge over the Guadalquivir River (4 km from the Empalme) follow the right track (JF-7091) that after two kilometres reaches the Bridge.

This peri-urban environmental park occupies 11 hectares of land and has recreational areas, bike lane, trails, viewpoints, wooden buildings, classrooms, aviary, artificial lake and botanical garden. In the Cercado del Ciprés we will enjoy a beautiful courtyard of oranges, which presents a system of irrigation lacquers that reminiscent of the gardens of Muslim design. Here are the offices of the Sierras de Andújar Natural Park as well as a visitor information point. The environmental education activities they organize include the scientific nesting of birds and workshops on beekeeping, fishing and identification of animal prints.

Also known as "Senda de los Adelfares," it is a forest in a gallery made up of adelfas that develops along the birth of the Cuadros River, in the Natural Park of Sierra Magina. It is the most extensive formation in southern Spain with a high degree of conservation.

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.

Location: West of the city centre.
Distance: 600 m.
Medium: Tourism vehicle.
Access route: Directly from the urban centre via the asphalt road JV-2,044.

Tranco road A-319, in the surroundings of the Tranco reservoir.