Top 4 Caves 루바이트 주변

This cave is to the southwest of the Sierra de Lujar, just going down from the llama de los pozos or going up from La Fábrica Rey, passing through the Cueva de las Palomas. Warning, once we go up from the Cueva de las Palomas we enter a private estate. Although the pass is not closed, it must be taken into account once we pass the private farm sign there is a very steep area and after two km we are in the Melero cave.

Rockroses, male rosemary, torvizco shrubs, junipers, small olive trees, wild olive trees, thyme, broom, espartal grass and many other species typical of a coastal ecosystem, which receives a high level of humidity, with real surprises among its most characteristic species. This is the case of Teucrium rixanense, whose name refers to the Rijana and is considered an endemic species of this small territory, where it is also possible to find Mediterranean orchids, some of them very rare.

Going up to the Águila peak is one of the most attractive and easy routes that can be done on the eastern coast of Granada, since it combines landscape, with impressive views of both the marine strip and the interior, with the Lújar and Contraviesa mountains, and They show a sequence of ecosystems that are part of the purest thermo-Mediterranean and Mesomediterranean bioclimatic floor in the highest areas. From the road between Gualchos and El Conjuro, a little more than two kilometers away, there is a lane that connects directly with the trails to the highest peak on the Granada coast. Only 1.5 kilometers that show slopes cultivated with almond trees and areas of esparto trees where the original ecosystem degraded by the passage of time and climate emerges. After the lane, the path continues towards an old disused shooting range, a point where the calar begins, an ecosystem of limestone rocks and marble that becomes karstic towards the highest point of the Águila summit.

The osprey was habitual on the cliffs located between Calahonda and Castell de Ferro and its flights over the sea and the summits of the surrounding hills gave its name to the highest of the watchtowers that dominate the coast, the Pico del Águila, located on the town of Gualchos, a hill that rises between two ravines that flow into Rijana and Rijanilla, two anchorages used since the dawn of navigation and especially by the Romans and the first Umayyads to arrive on the Peninsula. The peak is the great vantage point from which you can see the entire eastern coastline of Granada and the rocky cliffs and cliffs that plunge down to the Calahonda and Carchuna delta, a karstic area, a cove of rocks sharpened by the wind, which They generate a peak on the ridged orography of the hill. settlers It is a territory in which the last Roman settlers of the coast of Granada sought refuge, forgotten by Rome at the time of the fall of the Empire.

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In the Olias ravine are these caves formerly used as corrals.

Going down from the town of Olias we cross a ravine that some times of rain drags a large part of water and stone in this same place following the route of the boulevard we find some caves formerly used in said ravine of Olias as corrals for cattle because right here we can visit several caves in the same ravine.

This cave is by the Sierra de Lujar in a place known as the King's factory