From Torres, and through the Pila Pellenda parquet, a mountain road is started towards Albanchez de Magina. A few four kilometres away we find a right turn, which gives access to the youth camp area Hondacabras. These sites were cattle's rest on the freckles that passed through these mountains. In this place begins a forest track between pine trees that gradually ascends for 4 Km, something beyond the Nita Fountain. When we get to the crossing we will change direction to make the promotion to the Port of the Mata. The floor of the track is firm, but we will find some outstanding ramps that the less experienced can invite them to take off their bikes. In 3.5 km the port is reached, a step between mountains - some above 2,000 meters. The landscape is a gift for the view: all the southern side of the Natural Park, mountains more than 2,000 meters of altitude (Almadén, 2.036 m., Ponce, 2.006 m and Cerro Cárceles, 2.061 m.), and dehesas in height of complaints, flocks of sheep..., and on the horizon the province of Granada. The rest of the way is down. Five and a half kilometres from the port we arrived at the Castlejo de Mata Bejid, a beautiful place that housed a garrison, which watched this passage on the Middle Ages border, and that until the first half of the 20th century it housed several families of settlers who cultivated the dehesas along the way. This castle was donated to the city of Jaén by the Catholic Kings in 1494, in reward for the services provided in the conquest of Cambil and Alhabar. Two kilometers of olive trees take us to the Cambil-Huelma road. At this point it is worth looking at the corrijada of Mata Bejid, where the spirit of the belle époque with rural dyes is still revived. It is a private property that has an interesting chapel, gardens, house of the gentlemen and even a garage of regionalist style. From here we can choose to go down to the town of Cambil, by the course of the Oviedo River (5 Km.), or better to get close to the new Visitors Center of the Natural Park just three km away. In addition to information from all over the Park, the centre has a shop, meringers, children's games, fountain, services and a walk area for people with reduced mobility.

This path coincides throughout its journey with the PR-A 128 Circular Embalse of Anchuricas, which has a total distance of 14 km. And it's marked with stone mojones. It also coincides with the path marked by the Environmental Council, so the distances will not exactly be with those we see in the starting panel.

This route begins at the LINAREJOS VIEWPOINT, from where you can enjoy an excellent panoramic view of much of the Sierra de Cazorla, one of the mountain ranges that make up the Natural Park. The renowned naturalist and great admirer of these landscapes filmed countless scenes very close to this location. During the winter months, you can hear the sound of the water plunging down the nearby Linarejos Stream waterfall. In addition to the “Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente Viewpoints” Route, there are other equally interesting routes nearby that allow visitors to discover more of this magnificent Natural Park, such as Cerrada de Utrero and the Linarejos Viewpoint Route.

The second VIEWPOINT included on this route is POYOS DE LA MESA, which offers one of the most spectacular panoramic views in the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park: the Poyos de la Mesa plateau, which reaches an altitude of 1,635 metres. Should you decide to climb it, you will enjoy breathtaking views of the Guadalquivir Valley, Vadillo-Castril and the El Adelantado Parador, among other places. It is a geological formation highly characteristic of these mountains: a unique high plateau that ends in a steep descending slope. Among the pine forests near this point stands the Pino Abuelo, or Grandfather Pine, one of the oldest trees in the area.

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The third VIEWPOINT on the route is NAVA DE SAN PEDRO, where the meadows were once converted into vegetable gardens and cultivated fields. It provides an insight into living conditions at a time when timber was one of the main resources extracted from the mountains and the inhabitants used the relatively scarce open spaces for livestock farming and agriculture. On many occasions, the forest rangers themselves established forest houses in suitable locations such as this one, where vegetable gardens and small-scale livestock farming supplemented both their diet and their income. From this viewpoint, you can enjoy impressive views and learn about the return of the bearded vulture to Andalusia.

The landscape before you was the last Andalusian refuge of an animal as little known as it is spectacular: the bearded vulture. This Iberian vulture disappeared from the mountains you are now looking at in the late 1980s, resulting in its extinction in Andalusia.

Shortly afterwards, work began on the programme to reintroduce the bearded vulture to Andalusia, promoted by the Regional Ministry of the Environment. The species’ most remarkable characteristic is its scavenging diet, as it is the only bird on the planet that feeds almost exclusively on bones. To do so, it has developed an ingenious behaviour from which it takes its name: it drops bones from great heights so that they break against the ground in places known as bone-breaking sites. This allows it to consume large, hard bones. Although the bird is harmless, all the threats faced by bearded vultures are associated with human beings and their activities.

Their populations declined and became locally extinct as a result of direct persecution, collecting, collisions and electrocution involving power lines, and the illegal use of poisoned bait.

Today, they are also affected by disturbance around nesting sites caused by nearby recreational activities such as climbing and paragliding, as well as by reduced food availability and the decline of extensive livestock farming.

To achieve the return of the bearded vulture to Andalusia, feasibility studies were carried out to identify the most suitable areas for the species. A captive-breeding programme was established to provide chicks for reintroduction, together with a release and monitoring plan and a public-awareness programme aimed at informing the sectors involved in its conservation.

The fourth stop has been named the BARRANCO DEL GUADALENTÍN VIEWPOINT, where you can clearly observe the course followed by the river on its way towards the nearby La Bolera Reservoir. Over the centuries, the Guadalentín River has carved an impressive valley through the hard rock, which later narrows into secluded gorges known locally as “cerradas”. From here, the Sierra del Pozo rises majestically, containing some of the highest peaks in the Natural Park, including Pico Cabañas, which stands at over 2,000 metres and dominates the mountain landscape. At the foot of the viewpoint lies the path of the “Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente Viewpoints” Route, which climbs continuously until reaching the end of this magnificent route at the Estrecho de los Perales.

The fifth stop is the ESTRECHO DE LOS PERALES VIEWPOINT, a remarkable gorge distinguished by the beauty of its unusual rock formations. Below, the Valdetrillo Stream tumbles through lively rapids, providing a pleasant natural soundtrack. In this area, you may see agile mouflons and male Iberian ibex climbing the vertical rock faces, or enjoy the majestic flight of a golden eagle, griffon vulture or booted eagle. Behind the viewpoint stands Cerro de los Trancos, which offers views of some of the highest mountains in this protected natural area, including El Cabañas.

“We must do everything within our power; we must fight together, united and tenaciously, so that a vast, round rock does not die: a rock with a heart of iron and basalt, a rock with a skin of water and clouds, a rock whose voice is the singing of birds and the whisper of the breeze, now increasingly overwhelmed by the roar of the machines invented by humankind; a rock travelling through space, carrying the human species and every living animal; a rock that I like to call the blue planet.”

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente in El Hombre y la Tierra.

To get to the beginning of the track we follow the JH-7155 (Transversal de Las Villas) road, which starts in Mogón, until the km 22, after about 700 m from the site of La Fresnedilla. At that point, to our left, several ways are left. The first to the site of the Arroyo del Torno, place of an old nursery located in the wonderful channel of this stream. The second detour is the track that leads us, after 2.6 km, to the top of Navazalto (1379 m).

From the town of Pontones we left for the A-317 towards Santiago de la Espada. Immediately, we take to the right an asphalt road that ends at the birth of the Segura River. There begins a forest track marked as GR 144. About 2.5 km away we take a fork to the right corresponding to GR 7. From here, without leaving the road, we will reach an open area where the lookout is indicated within 10 minutes. From birth to the lookout there is a 1? h and 30 minutes walking.

On our way out of Pontones we are heading for Santiago de la Sword for the A-317. About 10 - 11 km is located on the right the Tina de la Cañá, a small construction to keep cattle, and just across the road begins this forest track that goes from the heights of Pontones and Santiago de la Espada to the Toba.

The itinerary, which runs along 18 km (every thousand metres) by means of identification. It begins at the Félix lookout, located at the foot of the road of the Tranco A-319, continuing for it towards Arroyo Frio until the intersection with the track leading to the campsiteLlanos de Aranceand that goes along, first, the right bank of the Guadalquivir River and then the tail of the Tranco reservoir. The first half of the route, along the asphalt road, passes through an interesting forest of coniferous: black pines and carrasco, complaints, oaks..., mixed with alffas, strawberries and willows of the river of Guadalquivir, and includes the required visit to the Park of Fauna SilvestreAlmond Necklace. Large mammals, such as deer, mountain goats, muflons and wos, live in semi-freedom this part of the Natural Park

From kilometer 8, past the bridge of the Golondrinas over the Guadalquivir, we travel through a forest track that crosses streams under the refreshing shade of chopos, strawberries and willows, with intrusions of Mediterranean forest, where it will be nothing difficult to meet with deer, boars, squirrels, etc.

We suggest the following possibilities:

Km 2.Peña del Olivar Recreative Area. It has an unusual Botanical Collection with natural park species and a natural pool. It is also the starting point for various walks.

Km 2.2.Start to the left of the road to the Fountain Recreative Area of the Almoteja. You can go by car, but we recommend to enjoy on foot this walk 1.5 km next to the river vegetation of the Arroyo del Barranco de los Tejos. The recreational area has a fountain where we can see the catacamosque (Pinguicola vallisneriifolia), small carnivora plant endemic to the Park. There begins a signposted path of 1 '5 km.

Km 5.2. The site of La Fresnedilla, with small scattered cortijos, where we can walk two signposted paths.

Km 6.3.Start to the right of the La Canalica forest track. We recommend that you drive through it, as we can walk through several signposted trails and approach the well of the Snow, sturdy and hidden stone construction where the snow was previously stored for use during the summer. Next to him is a source.

Km 7.3.Mirador de La Fresneilla, with beautiful views.

Km 7.8.Free Time Siles residence. It is in a very careful environment from which comes a wide road that allows very pleasant walks. It ends, after almost 6 km, on the forest track that leaves Siles towards the Puntal de la Ajedrea.

Km 10.4.Start to the left of a long forest track that crosses private farms and runs, in its last sections, by the Tu River.

Km 11.Start to the right of the same forest track we saw in the km 6.3, which makes loop with the road. From here is closer the Snow well. From here we enter the Reserve Area of Acebeas- Nava del Espino, an area especially protected by its high ecological value. We can see that at this point the forest becomes greener and greener.

Km 11.6.Area of Azebeas Controlled Squad. Magnificent place under large larity pines where you can rest when you are not occupied by some camp.

Km 12.5.Place of Las Abeas. On the left a delicious walk to an old forest house starts. This place, with its hazelnuts and its large hives in the shadow of the larice pines, is one of the most emblematic of the Natural Park. In less than an hour you can climb an exceptional path from the forest house to the Calar de Navalperal, from where you enjoy great views.

Km 14.1.Cross with the JF-7016 road. Here our route ends, although it is a very strategic place to start many others. You will see abundant signs that indicate different possibilities, such as Segura de la Sierra, Río Madera or Pontones.