If you go through the fertile vein on which the Ojuelo sits, you will reach the Robledo right at the feet of the Yelm. A long street with houses on both sides leads us to a small square with a hermitage and a little higher a forest house, which will be the headquarters of a Thematic Air Space starring free flight sports, as the take-off of the Yelmo is very close.

The Robledo marks at 900 meters of altitude the cut between the cultivation of the olive tree and the pine tree. By going through a forest track you can climb up to the Yelmo, making a stop at a lookout next to the track that offers spectacular views over the valley.

The landscape is determined by human perception and is the result of the interaction of the elements of nature and man, then human action has conditioned the transformation of the natural landscape and the inclusion of cultural elements that give it value, so it is necessary to preserve and enhance them. We are therefore facing a natural resource that has allowed not only subsistence but also economic activity since man arrived on these lands.

It is now difficult to imagine what this spring and its immediate course would be like without that interaction by which human beings have created a laundry room, which is what we now see in the Birth, or downstream in the Matias and the Birth mills, in the Balsa, the Charcón, the Pileta and Arroyo launchers, or the numerous pools and the network of waterfalls for the irrigation of the place known as the "Site." At some point these infrastructures must have been created and we are likely to have to reassemble long before the repopulation of the Cabrilla Site. Today we will deal only with the environment closest to the Birth, so the relative to what we find downstream of this stream that so much life has spread since time immemorial will be part of the future of a new post.

To try to imagine what those places were like not long ago, when they still fulfilled the task for which they were created, we counted, of course, on the impagable photographic work of Arturo Cerda and Rico, so that we can see in some of their photos also a certain evolution, is the case of the same spring in its natural state prior to its channelling, for not so long ago, until 1910, where today we see the seven years, there was only a plateau from which the crystal waters of the Sierra Cruzada were kept.

It has a rectangular plant facing from northeast to southeast and a walled enclosure. The best preserved wall is the northeast, 18.70 meters long and 4 meters high in its highest corner. It consists of several rows of large-scale stones, on which a wall of tapial, now missing, would be raised. In its interior it retains a seam of regular armchairs, smaller than those of the outer wall, of 6.30 meters in length and 2 meters in width.

Although it dates from Iberian chronology, both ceramic decorated with Iberian ceramic bands andterra sigillataRoman, so you can deduce a continued occupation of the land; as well as medieval ceramics.

Its mission was to monitor and control the communication routes, as it is closely linked to the corridor of the Guadiana Minor River, which communicates the upper valley of Guadalquivir with the highlands of Guadix and Baza.

In 1985 it was declared Good of Cultural Interest.

Aflation of the upper Cretaceous dolomies, which form a small ruiniform relief, as they are in contact with margous materials of the Ambient (facies "utrillas"), in the east, and attached to a meandro of the Zumeta River in the west.

At this point there is an old dam, which gives a special charm to the place. The Zumeta River is the border of the province of Jaén, and of Andalusia, with the province of Albacete in that area, so that the eastern margin of this area already belongs to Castilla - La Mancha.

Source: Inventory of Georresources of Andalusia. Environmental Council. Junta de Andalusia.

The dolomies of the upper Cretaceous of the Prebetic in the Sierra de Segura afloat extensively, configuring much of the main reliefs of it. In the sector of Siles there is an North-South mountain alignment, the main reliefs of which are Navalperal (1620 m) and Bucentaina (1395 m).

Between them is the peak called "Hole Stone" (1290 m), which is a magnificent example of ruiniform relief in dolomies. These are dolomies with subhorizontal stratification with several caves that cross the peak, and with a very well developed "dentado" relief.

Source: Inventory of Georresources of Andalusia. Environmental Council. Junta de Andalusia.

The river erosion, which has a limestone wall of about 400 meters high, is the result of the river erosion. There is a teaching path dedicated to local botany.

Location: On the highway of Granada, just at the limit of the municipal terms of Campillo, Cárcheles and Cambil.

Distance: 7 km.

Medium: Tourism vehicle.

Access: Directly via the Granada Highway (A-44).

The summits of the Park leave an unbeatable mark on the memory of those who visit them. Among them are the Empanadas (ceiling of the Park with its 2107 m altitude), the Cabañas, the Banderillas, the Blanquillo, the Yelmo, the Almorchón, the Palomas, the Gilillo and the Rayal, among others.

The tops are an exceptional ecosystem, due to the special adaptation that living beings must suffer. Over 1800 m of altitude, a number of climatic, edaphic, orographic and geographical conditions match that make its vegetation unique. The first thing we'll see is that there are no forests. At this point the wind, the very low temperatures, the snow and the little soil available make the development of the trees impossible. The vegetation is reduced to woody matas attached to the ground with a motilated look. They are the piornal and other smaller, whitish rakes. This vegetation is called whitish.

So between blancizales and piornals have settled the summits of the Park. These blanks are made up of species that are covered with a white toment, to protect themselves from the high radiation that exists at that height in the summer and from the strong winter frost. Among them are notable bethic and local endemisms without a vernacular name such as Hormatophylla baetica, Andryala agardii, Santonina elegans, Convolvulus boissieri, Arenaria tetrachetra, Scorzonera albicans, Pterocephalus spatulathus, among others.

The piornal is made up of a series of plant species with an igloo-shaped look to support the wind and the weight of the snow. Among the species of piorns are the blue piorno or cambrón (Erinacea anthyllis), the old scrapes (Hormathophylla spinosa), the fine pyrone (Echinospartum boissieri) and others without a vernacular name such as the Astragalus nevadensis nevadensis and the Genista longes. Among these two formations are the lastonar, plant formation dominated by a gramline, the laston (Helictotrichum filifoliun), which colonizes the most degraded areas of the high mountain and the summits of the Park.

A much more comfortable option than the two we suggest is to climb to the Yelmo summit, accessible by car. The ecological and landscape characteristics are similar, and the views are extraordinary, but the ease of access is paid with the inevitable landscape degradation of the buildings of repeaters, antennas, etc. installed at the summit.

LOCATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT

Let's go to the summits selected for this section, one of them is the summit of the summits, El Empanadas, which with its 2107 m altitude is the roof of the Park. To get up you need to have good physical form and take time. We must approach by vehicle, by forest track to the tornadoes of Rambla Seca. If we come from the saw of Cazorla, we will reach the road of the Navy of San Pedro, to a control that has a fenced with a door. We open it and a few meters later we find the aforementioned tornips on our right. If we arrive from the Segura saw, we must cross the fields of Hernán Pelea to Rambla Seca. Next to the tornajos comes a track, already in worse condition, that we must do walking if we do not have an SUV. Through it we go into a valley in whose end we find the ruins of the old forest house of the Cabrilla. From here, already necessarily on foot, we will follow the stream that passes by and we go back. Soon we started going up a ramp. When we reach the hill we will continue to climb to our right, until we reach the top. All the way up we will see how the pineapple of larices or salgareños is being made clear to disappear and an impressive piornal, with rareras and rake juniper, will accompany us to the summit.

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To reach this point, less effort is needed, but it does not lose its beauty. The Crow Stone (1820 m) is in the Calar de Gila. To access, we must take the lead from the birth of the Segura to Cañada de la Cruz and follow it to the entrance to this enclave. This track is surrounding the northeastern part of the Cañada until you reach a crossing with a track to our right. The first crossing that we are on the right is the track that takes us to Hoya Maranza to Hoya Espinosilla and to the road that links Pontones with Santiago de la Sword. This track has a little over 6 km, but we won't go through it all. Once at it, about 3 km away, we find a crossing to our right that leads us to a small aerodrome, where they can land planes. It is easy to detect, and once in it, in a south direction we are raised a rock as a monolith, which is the Crow Stone.

Location: to the southeast of the city centre, in Cerro Peñalta.
Distance: 3.5 km.
Half: on foot.
Access route: first take the Honda Bridge road and turn right along the Peñalta road.