Territory · four ways in
Zones, rivers, protected areas and eras
The Serranía de Cuenca is explored here in three zones, Serranía Alta, Media and Baja, and also through its rivers, its protected areas and its eras.
By zone
Water links the zones
Follow a river, find a memory
The Júcar and the Cabriel flow towards the Mediterranean; the Guadiela and the Escabas, towards the Tagus. Each river leads to its villages, to the streams that feed it and to what was done beside the water: timber, mills, light.
By protected area
All protected areas →- Complejo Lagunar del río Moscas micro-reserve
- Cueva de los Morceguillos micro-reserve
- Hoz de Beteta y Sumidero de Mata Asnos Natural Monument
- Laguna de Talayuelas micro-reserve
- Laguna del Marquesado Nature Reserve
- Lagunas de Cañada del Hoyo Natural Monument
- Chorreras del Cabriel Natural Monument
- Muela Pinilla y del Puntal Natural Monument
- Nacimiento del río Cuervo Natural Monument
- Palancares y Tierra Muerta Natural Monument
- Serranía de Cuenca Natural Park
- Valle del Cabriel Biosphere Reserve
- Serrezuela de Valsalobre Natural Monument
- Torcas de la Lagunaseca Natural Monument
- Serranía de Cuenca SAC and SPA (ES4230014)
By era
- Geology and dinosaurs · Mesozoic – today
- First marks and rock art · Palaeolithic – Bronze Age
- Iberians and Celtiberians · 7th – 1st centuries BC
- Rome and lapis specularis · 1st – 4th centuries
- Frontier, charters and castles · 8th – 15th centuries
- Towns, lords and the Mesta · 16th – 18th centuries
- The trades of the forest and the water · 16th – 20th centuries
- Carlists, Madoz and disentailment · 19th century
- War, maquis and post-war · 1936 – 1950s
- The emptying · 1950s – today
- Today · 21st century
What it shares with the Alto Tajo
Part of the Serranía de Cuenca, such as the headwaters of the Guadiela and the Cuervo, the Hoz de Beteta or villages such as Beteta and Valsalobre, also belongs to the Alto Tajo Natural Park. It appears on both websites: here, told from the Serranía and its villages; on altotajo.es, from the Alto Tajo. Each page links to its counterpart on the other site.