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.

It is one of the most cuddly and important springs in Sierra Magina, being the pride of the shrubs. Although water sprouts through limestone rocks and liasic dolomies of an aquifer, it has a marked saline character because it arises in the breast of margas with triasic plaster.

The waters of the birth are collected in an artificial construction raft that stores them and leads by a system of waterfalls that runs throughout the village.

Next to the birth is one of the four power plants that used the waters of the river for the production of electricity.
This beautiful area is conditioned with a meringero area that allows visitors to enjoy a picnic in a unique natural environment.

The river course is channeled in a multitude of waterfalls that give wealth to the land of the municipality and irrigate many hectares of land. Previously it gave impetus to flour and oil mills, while it is currently used for the irrigation of the olive tree, true economic engine of the area.

The space has a magnificent road with barbecues, banks, tables, stationery, a small bar and children's playground, where you can spend a pleasant day surrounded by nature and where you can take advantage of the freshness of the place and the shadows of the trees.

In the birth of the Arbuniel you can see ducks and river crabs, which inhabit in its channel thanks to the great amount of lime of its waters, and abundant trout.

This spring has never been enough to fertilize all the lands that extend on a decreasing level towards the Guadalbullion River. On the other hand, the years of drought have always been very numerous, in which the volume of this source was significantly reduced, because the piezometric surface of the aquifer located to the north of the population, which gives rise to the Charca spring, is linked to driving through galleries with siphoning phenomena.

The reservoir is mainly nourished by the waters of the Guadalquivir, it has almost 500 cubic meters of capacity and 1500 hectares of surface. Much of it was previously occupied by the beautiful Vega de Hornos and the Guadalquivir valley.

We suggest...

The Tranco road is usually quite busy on dates of greater tourist influx, so, if you really want to enjoy the landscape, do not agree to look at it from the car and stop for a while at the dam or at some viewpoint, as usual. Our advice is: walk. On the right bank, you have several forest tracks, as well as the circular signposted path PR-A 149, which begins very close to the village of Fuente la Higuera. On the left, there are two signposted paths: the PR-A 193, which starts 1.1 km from the Tranco dam to the north, and a stretch of the GR-144, which is taken halfway between the Hornos de Segura and Cañada Morales, in a pronounced curve. In addition, in the environment of the reservoir you will not find many earrings.