We start the trail at the Cerrada del Utrero information point (see 1 on the map) where we can leave our car.<\/p>\n
We will ascend for the first hundred meters through a terrain full of carved rocks due to the erosive action of water over millennia. They are small parallel grooves that appear in the limestone rock, called lapiaces that, little by little, will become deeper. The inhabitants of the area know all of these forms as lanchares. <\/p>\n
We enter the enclosure descending about two hundred meters, along a path carved in the wall, towards the Guadalquivir River, responsible for the formation of the precipices and cliffs that we are enjoying. The vegetation here is very abundant, and the holm oaks, cornicabras and mastic trees that we see cling with their powerful roots to the rock, defying the force of gravity. <\/p>\n
The presence of the Utrero 3 Reservoir can be guessed when we get closer, due to the murmur of the water.<\/p>\n
This infrastructure allows, through a pipe, to precipitate the water kilometers down towards the Utrero Hydrographic Power Plant, now abandoned.<\/p>\n
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We continue our journey descending the wall of the reservoir by some wooded stairs. From here, the closed area opens slowly, which allows us to enjoy a few meters ahead, and on the opposite bank, the Cola de Caballo 4 waterfall. <\/p>\n
The depth of the pit drilled by the river in the rock means that the tributary streams of the Guadalquivir River form beautiful waterfalls such as this one from the Linarejos stream.<\/p>\n
Next to this waterfall there are remains of an old structure that allowed the logs that were transported by the river to save the waterfall<\/p>\n
The water here is very pure and is home to a wide variety of aquatic fauna, from fish such as trout, barbel and bogas to birds such as the dipper. Even, if we have been keeping silent, and with some luck, we could see the elusive otter. <\/p>\n
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The timber wealth of these mountains has always been exploited by man and was the most important economic activity for their populations.<\/p>\n
However, the difficult orography made the transport of wood to one of the places of consumption a difficult obstacle to overcome. The solution was simple and economical, although it was not generalized until the mid-eighteenth century: to take advantage of the riverbeds as a transport system. <\/p>\n
The logs (mainly of Salgare\u00f1o pine) were floated down from the piers or “aguaderos” to the railway stations in the lower areas such as the shipyards of Seville, C\u00e1diz and Cartagena where they were mainly used for shipbuilding. To avoid the waterfalls and waterfalls, they built complicated temporary scaffoldings or “shuttles” or “shots” that propelled the wood from great heights to enormous slopes that stopped the fall. <\/p>\n
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Ascending slowly, we continue our journey. We are bordering the 1,089-metre Pe\u00f1\u00f3n del Lanch\u00f3n, the great limestone mass on our left. The trail, which has become easier, offers us several places where we can sit and observe the beautiful landscape that is presented to us. The gorge has opened up and the birds make the skies of the place their own. <\/p>\n
From here the path is integrated into an area with abundant vegetation in which we can see specimens of cornicabras, junipers, junipers and pine, some of them centenarians.<\/p>\n
In about four hundred meters we reach the end of our trail that coincides with the JF \u2013 7091 road. After the walk we can go to the kiosk-bar where we leave the car to regain strength. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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