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Sendero de las Navas

Sendero de las Navas is a circular route around Fuentes, between 1,000 and 1,200 m altitude: it climbs the Morrón slope, descends to La Nava, crosses farmland to Nava de los Abarcones, passes a rento, an isolated farmstead in the hills, and Pocico Valencia, and returns to the village. There are pens, wells and springs, and holm-oak and Portuguese-oak wood pasture.

Houses of Fuentes and the surrounding landscape
Fuentes, starting point of the Sendero de las Navas, in 2018. Photo: «Fuentes 01», 19Tarrestnom65 (2018) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Walking time without travel or stops. Difficulty estimated from distance and elevation gain where there is no official grading. «Easy» does not mean accessible.

  • Trail
  • Fuentes
  • Rento
  • Dehesa
  • Pens

Where to start

In Fuentes village centre, heading south-east.

The route

It climbs the Morrón slope and descends gradually to La Nava. From there, heading north-east, it crosses farmland to Nava de los Abarcones, turns north, passes a rento house, an isolated farmstead in the hills, and reaches Pocico Valencia, before returning to the village. These are hills and hollows of rain-fed cereals and Mediterranean woodland, with livestock pens, wells and springs, and holm-oak and Portuguese-oak wood pasture.

Difficulty and time

Circular, between 1,000 and 1,200 m altitude. The Town Council publishes no distance or time.

Before you set out

The pens and rento house are private property: view them from the path.

Official route · Ayuntamiento de Fuentes. 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

Lands and landscapes

From here, follow the memory of the land

These readings connect Sendero de las Navas with the stories, the work and the villages around it.

Where it is

Location of Sendero de las Navas Albaladejo del CuendeChillarón de CuencaArguisuelasBuenache de la SierraCañada del HoyoCarboneras de GuadazaónCardeneteLa CiervaCuencaChumillasFresneda de AltarejosFuentesMonteagudo de las SalinasOlmeda del ReyPajarónPajaroncilloPalomeraParacuellosLa Parra de las VegasReílloSolera de GabaldónValdemorillo de la SierraValdemoro-SierraVillar de OlallaYémedaValdetórtolaLas ValerasFuentenava de JábagaArcas PR-CU 21: Ruta de la fuente de MarimingoPR-CU 35: Sendero de Los CeñosPR-CU 36: Sendero de la hoz del HuécarPR-CU 83: Sendero de las LagunasPR-CU 87: Sendero de la Cañada Real de los ChorrosPR-CU 88: Sendero de la Colada del Barranco de la PalancosaSL-CU 10: Ruta de las Hoces de CuencaSL-CU 11: Ruta de la hoz del Júcar y San JuliánSL-CU 3: Hoz del río Gritos y páramos de Las Valeras Fuentes
In colour, the municipality. The place does not yet have a verified location, so no point is drawn. Municipal boundaries: © IGN (CC BY 4.0). Route lines: simplified official tracks; source and GPX on each page.
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