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Barranco de las Brujas

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Barranco de las Brujas

This walk is ideal to get acquainted with the Sierra de Espuña. In the first part you have a beautiful viewpoint on the Morón de Alhama, a striking mountain, then it goes through pine forests towards the Casa Leiva and La Perdiz. The second part takes you through the path of the dinosaurs in the beautiful valley of the Leiva to the Barranco de las Brujas, the valley of the witches.

Distance: 12 km.

Time: 3h30.

Grade: Moderate.

Type: Circular.

Gps Track: Yes.

Route description: Yes.

Wheelchair: Not suitable.

Dog: Allowed.

Height gain: 364 meters.

Trail: 95% unpaved.

Marking: PR-MU 79: white-yellow and GR252: white-red.

Hiking shoes recommended.

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Through the valley of the witches.

The walk leaves at the info sign next to the entrance to Camping Sierra Espuña. You leave the village past the school and start to ascend to an iron gate that gives access to the Sierra Espuña. At a viewpoint you have a beautiful view of the striking mountain Morrón de Espuña (1444 meters). Then it goes via beautiful forest paths in the direction of Casa Leiva and the old sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was in use until the 30's of last century. Shortly thereafter you arrive at the recreation area and parking La Perdiz. From here you follow the path of the dinosaurs for one kilometer, there is a stone on the path of which it is said that a paw print of a dinosaur can be seen there. A little further you pass an old well and a suspension bridge over the Barranco de Leyva. You now enter the valley of the Leyva and then turn right into the Barranco de las Brujas, the valley of the witches. The stony path descends firmly until you come back at the edge of El Berro.

Barranco de la Brujas

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The white-yellow mark is everywhere but not always visible. Often the marking is applied to a stone on the ground and not at eye level. The second part follows the white-red marking of the GR252 and is clearer.

Map & Poi's.

POI 1 - Valley of the witches.

The legend says that mules, carrying ice from the Los Pozos de la Nieve, were shattered by screaming witches with long, sharp nails and thrown into the ravine. Within a quarter of an hour the gap changed into a stream of blood and everything in the area turned red. The shepherds who were terrified took the flight and told their story.

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