Lora del Río – Peñaflor loop from Lora del Río

Lora del Río – Peñaflor loop from Lora del Río

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Lora del Río – Peñaflor loop from Lora del Río

02:26

57.1km

390m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 27, 2026

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597 m

Lora del Río

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In the heart of the Guadalquivir Valley, at the foot of the Sierra Morena mountains, 57 km from Seville.
Its origins are Turdetani and Roman (Axati), followed by the Andalusian period (Al Lawra), and after the conquest, it became a domain of the Order of Malta.

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7.82 km

Canal de los Presos del Bajo Guadalquivir

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The Canal de los Presos del Bajo Guadalquivir, also known as the Canal del Bajo Guadalquivir, is an important irrigation canal in the provinces of Seville and Cádiz. The canal was built between 1940 and 1962 and has a length of 158 kilometres. It starts at the Embalse de Peñaflor and ends at the Embalse de Don Melendo in Lebrija.
The construction of the canal was carried out by thousands of political prisoners who were deployed in the Servicio de Colonias Penitenciarias Militarizadas during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The canal was originally intended to irrigate an area of 56,000 hectares, but today it covers an area of 80,000 hectares.
The canal plays a crucial role in the agriculture of the region by providing irrigation to the fertile lands along the Guadalquivir. It is an important example of the infrastructure built during the Francoist period and has deep historical significance due to the working conditions of the prisoners who built it.

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13.8 km

Canal de los Presos of the Lower Guadalquivir

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The Lower Guadalquivir Canal, also known as the Prisoners' Canal, is an irrigation canal located in southern Spain. It was built during the early Franco era by several thousand political prisoners under the Militarized Penal Colony Service, created in September 1939. It was the public work of Franco's regime that "used political prisoners as its main labor force for the longest period [from 1940 to 1962]."

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22.8 km

Canal del Bajo Guadalquivir

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23.1 km

Reservoir and bridge of the Guadalquivir River

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The Río Guadalquivir is dammed up here to create the water level and constant supply for the irrigiation canal beginning a few hundred yards further on the west side.

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26.6 km

Peñaflor

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Sevillian locality in the foothills of Sierra Morena. Highlights include the church of San Pedro Apóstol, declared a Site of Cultural Interest for its position between Baroque and Neoclassicism, and the Casa Palacio, an emblematic Baroque building for its high historical value in civil architecture.

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44.7 km

José Toran Reservoir Dam

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Reservoir inaugurated in 1991, located in the Sierra Norte de Sevilla Natural Park. The reservoir is named in honor of the civil engineer José Torán Peláez, who died in 1981. The dam is located on the Guadalbarcar river.

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