The GR247is the largest hiking route in the largest natural space in Spain. The GR247 Forest of the South path offers you 478 km marked, along 21 main stages and 11 derivations to places of interest. The GR also has 3 variants, composed of two sections each, that will help you subdivide the layout, and make a version adapted to your interests and time available. You decide how to do it! Its tour will take you to the births of the Guadalquivir and Segura rivers, it will enter you by the mosaic of landscapes of this mountain: high mountain peaks, castles, forests, rivers and waterfalls, traditional roads, altiplanicies, villages and villages still inhabited, historical sets, olive groves and orchards. A great way to discover the flight of the broken bones, the cleanest waters, the conversation with the transhuman pastors, the way to live in the mountain villages..., a collection of experiences and the authenticity of the most extensive saws of Andalusia, await you on the verge of this road. Most of the stages start and end in places with basic services - sources, villages or villages, campsites and other accommodation, camping areas or near carts. Other sections have only emergency shelters, without services, built to provide these areas of the GR. It well plans your journey because some stages go through very remote places, without telephone coverage, often subject to high mountain conditions that can leave you isolated (snow, wind and low-zero temperatures in winter, or lack of water and permanent insolation in summer), so you must be informed of the conditions before you start the route; in addition to having enough of your breath. You decide where to start the road, how many steps you will make on this visit to the park, how to divide the walk or, if you prefer, dedicate all your holidays to the full tour. Never leave the route, always follow the rules of use of the GR and the shelters as well as the instructions of the natural park staff. It respects all the rules of protected space as you walk the path and use its equipment. Landscapes full of memory await the steps and the complicit look of the walker, in one of the most interesting natural spaces in southern Europe.

It is a path designed around the Jandula River. Through a pleasant walk, you can enjoy the contrast between the riverside ecosystems and those of a typical dehesa of the Sierra de Andújar Natural Park.

It starts at the Iron Bridge that crosses the Jandula River and is also the main entrance to the natural park. A recreational area with barbecues and tables continues in parallel to the right bank of the river. In this section of the path we can observe the characteristic vegetation of the park's riverside forests: strawberries, alyses, sardines, tarayes, etc., which serve as a refuge to the representative fauna of this humid area: royal herons, zampullin, water cocks and if we are lucky you can see some otter. It is interesting, too, the presence of small sides of rabies or mohyes that often approach visitors waiting for food.

On this same stretch and on our left, in what constitutes the Solana del Coscojar, we can see, on the hillside, that the vegetation changes markedly, with the appearance of oak, pine pines, lentils and grasses.

Following the river bank we arrive at the foot of the dam of the Encinarejo swamp. It is a small swamp, more like a lake, and the purpose of which is the use of electrical energy. Under the dam and through a bridge you cross the other shore, after a small climb you reach the village of Encinarejo, built to house the employees who built the dam.

The rabbit is of great importance inside the park. In addition to traditional cynegetic use in the area, it provides support for species of great interest such as the lince, the imperial eagle or the meloncillo. The deer is the species of major hunting par excellence in the natural park, the traditional form of hunting is the montaria, its tradition in this

IMPORTANT AVISO

As a preventive measure to prevent the contagion of COVID19, this path must be carried in the sense indicated in the starting sign.

The trail Los Cerrillos is part of the Old Way, used by the pilgrims to climb from Andújar to the Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Head. Part of the site known as Los Cerrillo and reaches the Hermitage of San Ginés, a traditional meeting point for pilgrims.

The path gently ascends from the countryside, crosses through areas of livestock pastures and goes into the Sierra, crossing mountains covered with oak trees, cantuesos and jaras. During the flowering season, in April and May, the landscape becomes especially attractive.

It is worth walking this path in order to see an interesting panorama of Andújar and the countryside of the Guadalquivir valley and to go through the intertwined paths excavated on the slate rocks by the continued passage of thousands of pilgrims: walkers, cyclists and riders

This circular route, which coincides in its first half with the GR-7 and the Safe Source Path (perfectly marked by the Environmental Council of the Junta de Andalucía), runs through the valley between the slopes of the Mariasnal and the rocky soils of Los Corralejos, passing through the villages of Fuente Segura and the birth of the Segura River, a spectacular crystalline poza of about 7 m diameter by 6 m depth, whose state is very variable according to the weather of the year.

The water runs through the mouth of a poza that forms part of the underground system that collects the precipitation that falls into the nearby altiplanicie of the fields of Hernán Perea.

Northern area of the Natural Park, municipality of Siles.

After contemplating at the beginning the great poza where the Segura river is born, the route ascends between pinars, pastures, small vaguadas and very broken hills by the karmic action.

The route ends in an impressive cut from which we discover the most panoramic. To the left, the rope of the Banderillas and the Sierra de Cazorla. To the right stands the summit of the Yelmo and the Alcaraz Albaceteña saw.

The most immediate thing is the abandoned village of Los Centenares. After that, the summit curtain of the Sierra de Mirabuenos and the Sierra de las Villas, among which the Guadalquivir valley and the Tranco reservoir are hidden. Beyond, the view is lost in the plains of Castilla-La Mancha. The area is continuously overflown by leonate vultures and the muflon is very abundant.

Between the Garganta de Hornos and the El Yelmo peak, near the village of La Capellanía in the municipality of Hornos de Segura.

In the village of the Capellania, right at the entrance, as the first building is passed to our right, the path starts. There is an indicative arrow and the corresponding start panel.

Proximities of the Embalse del Tranco, near the Hornos de Segura (approx. 10 km).

In the heart of the Segura River Valley, in the municipal term of Santiago- Pontones.