The project
A living atlas of the Serranía de Cuenca
Serranía de Cuenca · atlas vivo is an independent atlas of the Serranía de Cuenca, upper, middle and lower, guided by memory: each place is told through what was lived in it. For now it brings together 77 villages, 177 places, 15 protected areas and 79 official routes, and it grows as each fact is verified. It is made by El Observario, an ecotourism project in the Iberian Range, and is the sister of altotajo.es.
What area it covers
The Serranía de Cuenca is covered here in three zones: Serranía Alta, Serranía Media and Serranía Baja. Each village, place and route belongs to its zone, and from Territory you can also go in by rivers, protected areas and eras.
What lies in the province of Cuenca and also belongs to the Alto Tajo, such as Beteta, Valsalobre, the Hoz de Beteta or the source of the Cuervo, appears on both websites, each with its own approach and a link to the other: altotajo.es.
How we work
- No invented data. Coordinates, altitudes and membership of a zone come from a cited source or are left blank. That is why many maps colour the IGN municipal boundary instead of drawing a point.
- Every fact says where it comes from. The pages distinguish source consulted, reference located and open question.
- No copied text. Facts are paraphrased and cited.
- Official routes only: the Natural Park, trails approved by the mountain federation and those of Cuenca Provincial Council.
- Photos only under free licences and with their author shown.
- Pages without their own text are published for browsing but are not offered to search engines until they are complete.
Where the data come from
- Municipal boundaries: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (CC BY 4.0).
- Protected areas: designation laws and official pages of the regional government of Castilla-La Mancha and of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition.
- Memory: archives, publications and recorded oral testimony, cited in each story.
- Forecast and sky: Open-Meteo in real time; the moon phase is calculated in your browser.
Who is behind it
El Observario runs nature activities for small groups in the Alto Tajo and the Serranía de Cuenca. When a page is related to one of its outings, a note at the end says so.
Have you spotted a mistake or do you know a story that is missing? Write to info@elobservario.com (in Spanish or English).