サンアグスティンの天然記念物・トップ17

Such a beautiful hike! During summer times don't forget to get extra water with you, even if hiking close to a river

Swimming in this river is a highly recommended and unique experience. During the summer months, there is a fee to enter (unless you stay overnight at a Montanejos accommodation). There is also a charge for parking in the roadside lot. Outside of peak season, both access and parking are free.

Beautiful village with wonderful bathing spots

The Chillapájaros Straits owe their name to the echoes of the birds that inhabit the rocky area, also known as the Mijares Canyon, which is an impressive limestone cut caused by a fault, patiently filed and excavated by the surface runoff of the Mijares River. Here the river bed passes through a deep gorge, two walls more than a hundred meters high in a vertical drop, in a passage about twenty-five meters wide. The road accompanies the river at different heights, approximately 40 m in elevation. The perspectives of this formidable gorge, of its cliffs, can be seen through two large “balconies”, built inside a tunnel that opens the way to the Mijares highway. Later, the viewpoints mentioned above were incorporated. From all of them, you can see the pronounced escarpments carved by the Mijares, whose rocky walls are the destination of numerous climbers throughout the year.

Get close to the river bank and don't miss the views

It's really beautiful there! In the off-season there's not much going on and you practically have nature to yourself.

Picnics are not allowed on site. In April it was relatively empty, parking was free. It is probably very crowded in summer.

Relatively empty in the low season (April), parking was free.