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Gaucín to San Pablo via the Alquería path, Maravillas cattlegrid and the Cañada de Gaucín el Colmenar

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Distance
8.49 mi
Elevation gain
456 ft
Technical difficulty
Moderate
Elevation loss
2,293 ft
Max elevation
2,109 ft
TrailRank 
36
Min elevation
198 ft
Trail type
One Way
Moving time
3 hours 25 minutes
Time
3 hours 50 minutes
Coordinates
2434
Uploaded
February 5, 2020
Recorded
January 2020
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near Gaucín, Andalucía (España)

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Photo ofGaucín to San Pablo via the Alquería path, Maravillas cattlegrid and the Cañada de Gaucín el Colmenar Photo ofGaucín to San Pablo via the Alquería path, Maravillas cattlegrid and the Cañada de Gaucín el Colmenar Photo ofGaucín to San Pablo via the Alquería path, Maravillas cattlegrid and the Cañada de Gaucín el Colmenar

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This is the shortest route from Gaucín to San Pablo - via the Alquería path, Maravillas cattlegrid and the Cañada de Gaucín el Colmenar. It's pretty much all downhill, on good paths and tracks. Once you have reached San Pablo I recommend lunch at one of the excellent restaurants there, followed by a lift back up the hill in a car!

You can either walk from the petrol station in Gaucin on the pedestrian walkway alongside the main road towards Algeciras (A-369), or - as we did - park your car on the layby on the left side of the main road towards the junction with the road down to El Colmenar (Railway station of Gaucin).

Start by walking along the side of the main road; when you come to the junction opposite the large signboard (see photo) cross the road, go BEHIND the signboard and go left, inbetween the road barrier and some bushes. In a couple of minutes you will see a grassy track leading down to the right; pass through a wire gate and continue on the obvious rocky path downhill.

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PictographPhoto Altitude 1,532 ft
Photo ofPass through various gates on the way down the rocky 'Alqueria' path. Photo ofPass through various gates on the way down the rocky 'Alqueria' path.

Pass through various gates on the way down the rocky 'Alqueria' path.

At one point you pass through a gate at the back of a private property; follow the fence past a water tank and a goat enclosure to another gate. Pass through this gate, turn left between two fences (the lawns of the house are on your left) and then at the junction, go STRAIGHT ACROSS down another little narrow path. (i.e. do not turn left towards a driveable track). Once you are on the narrow path you will see blue stripes of paint and you can continue down the Alqueria route.

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,483 ft
Photo ofWhen you reach the bottom of the Alqueria path, go through the gate and turn right onto track. Photo ofWhen you reach the bottom of the Alqueria path, go through the gate and turn right onto track.

When you reach the bottom of the Alqueria path, go through the gate and turn right onto track.

When you've passed "Hacienda de las Palomas" on the left, and then a very neatly tended garden, you come to a right hand curve in the track, just before the road, and a large metal gate.

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,549 ft
Photo ofPass through gate into field and head downhill and then cross to the other side

Pass through gate into field and head downhill and then cross to the other side

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,385 ft
Photo ofPass through gate and turn left onto track

Pass through gate and turn left onto track

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,243 ft
Photo ofJunction take the left track which goes downhill

Junction take the left track which goes downhill

PictographPhoto Altitude 771 ft
Photo ofJunction keep right

Junction keep right

PictographPhoto Altitude 906 ft
Photo ofJunction of tracks and gate

Junction of tracks and gate

PictographPhoto Altitude 997 ft
Photo ofTop grassy ridge

Top grassy ridge

PictographPhoto Altitude 377 ft
Photo ofLos Lirios

Los Lirios

PictographPhoto Altitude 243 ft
Photo ofRestaurant Estacion San Pablo

Restaurant Estacion San Pablo

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