Route
Ruta de los Dinosaurios
Cuenca Provincial Council's Ruta de los Dinosaurios links museums and centres explaining two benchmark European sites: Las Hoyas in La Cierva, from the Early Cretaceous, and Lo Hueco in Fuentes, with fossils about 75 million years old and skeletons of large sauropods. It passes through Buenache de la Sierra, Fuentes, Portilla and the Cuenca Palaeontology Museum.
Walking time without travel or stops. Difficulty estimated from distance and elevation gain where there is no official grading. «Easy» does not mean accessible.
- Dinosaurs
- Las Hoyas
- Lo Hueco
- Palaeontology
- Cuenca Provincial Council
Two sites, several stops
Las Hoyas, in La Cierva, is an international reference for the Early Cretaceous. Lo Hueco, in Fuentes, came to light during high-speed railway works in 2007 and has yielded fish, turtles, lizards, crocodiles and dinosaurs from about 75 million years ago, with partly articulated skeletons of large sauropods.
The route’s centres explaining them are spread across the province: Buenache de la Sierra; the Fuentes Interpretation Centre, with Lo Hueco replicas and the titanosaur figure «Epi» in a village park; the Portilla site; and, in the provincial capital, the Castilla-La Mancha Palaeontology Museum.
Before you set out
The Fuentes centre opens on weekend mornings: confirm the times. The fossil sites cannot be visited independently.
Official route · Diputación de Cuenca. Description, track and notices on the official route page (in Spanish). Before you set out, check there for changes or closures.
Carry on from here
Where it is
Where the data on this page come from
- Name
- Diputación Provincial de Cuenca source consulted, 4 October 2026
- Route data
- Diputación Provincial de Cuenca source consulted, 4 October 2026
«Source consulted»: the primary source has been read. «Reference located»: the source has been identified but not yet read. «Open question»: the figure needs confirmation.