RUTA CHORRERA CHICA, CABAÑEROS NATIONAL PARK
Hidden waterfall, beautiful and calm,
as if it were a delicate perfume
In the northern area of ​​the Cabañeros National Park is where the mountainous alignment of the Montes de Toledo has its highest point, the Rocigalgo, with 1,449 meters of altitude. The trails tha
t will take us to its top follow the course of the Chorro stream, with two singular waterfalls that give name to its two routes: the Chorro waterfall and the Chorrera Chica waterfall.
The route to the Chorrera Chica is therefore the continuation of the Chorro route. Of the 900 meters of altitude of the viewpoint of the waterfall of Chorro we will climb up to 1,100 meters of the Chorrera Chica, this difference offers a change of vegetation and flora that modifies and cultivates a different landscape with characteristics of the middle mountain. We will cross fabulous canchales, rebollares, cornices of quartzite rocks of millions of years and under its short via ferrata ledges with fossilized wave ripples, crossbows of trilobites and ruffs of a marine past.
We enter the territory of the mountain goat, the impressive deer deer and the majestic raptors.
Hidden, behind a large rocky wall, we will see the even more beautiful second waterfall of the stream of Chorro, which despite having the same meters of fall as the first, is called Chorrera Chica, we do not want to disclose before its time why …
Price
- Adults € 20 (€ 28 With transfer in 4×4 from Hontanar).
Difficulty: low
Duration 4.5 hours.
Distance 12km.
It includes:
Optical material (Binoculars and telescopes)
Field guides / consultation (flora and fauna)
RC and AA insurance
If you want more information about the dates of the exits and conditions, send form.
Did you know… ?
The Mountain Goat (Capra pyrenaica victoriae) that we find here, is the native subspecies -victoriae- of the mountains of the peninsular center and fundamentally of the Sierra de Gredos disappeared at the end of the XIX century and reintroduced in Los Montes de Toledo by the man have disappeared the native populations.
We share a small detail of the Notebooks of Dr. Félix RodrÃguez de la Fuente:
“Elequipo de la Cabra Montesa”:
Hooves: When we see a Goat climbing almost vertical walls, we must recognize that its special hooves fulfill, perhaps, the most important role in the life of these ruminants. The hoof is dilatable and its rough sole is a real antiderrapante. The hard outer edges are stuck in the narrowest projections. It is constantly renewed. They walk, though, relatively badly because of the snow. In the descents it is braked with the help of the sole and the false hooves; in the ascent it nails the ends and the edge of them.
Cuerna: The horns of the males, massive and imposing, serve for intraspecific struggles, that is, to know who is the strongest within their species; his role in defense is minimal.
The female horns, short and straight, can, when they lower their heads, become authentic pythons that are stuck in the body of the enemy. It is, therefore, useful for the defense of predators.
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