Organic Senda Canencia

Parking

Parking

Arrival to the Port of Canencia from Miraflores de la Sierra. From this point you can park the vehicle in one of the spaces that exist on the sides of the road, or in the parking lot indicated a few meters later.

Home Forest Track

Home Forest Track

Arriving from Miraflores, to the left part a forest track, closed to the vehicles by which the road is started on foot. .

Source of the Brush

Source of the Brush

The Fountain del Hornillo, located next to the road linking Miraflores de la Sierra with Canencia, is one of the most characteristic elements of the Port of Canencia.

Barrier

Barrier

About 200 metres from the start of the track, a barrier prevents the passage of vehicles. You must walk through the door on the left. .

Disvío Choza

Disvío Choza

Continuing on the track, you reach an indicator of a detour that leads to a pastoral hut. Following the path, to the right of the road, you can visit, returning to the track a few meters later.

Choza

Choza

In a clear among the pines, you can visit a pastoral hut to the old way, which served as a shelter for the pastors. Continuing the path returns to the forest track.

North Mirador

North Mirador

Coinciding with a sudden turn of the road, which leads towards SO, the North Mirador allows to see a wide view of the Sierra thanks to the absence of vegetation that provides a firewall. .

Post Indicator

Post Indicator

On the edge of the track, an indicator sign shows a route route. In the sense of one way, you must continue on the track. At this point it will return to the return, through the steps that are next to the sign.

Douglas's flocks

Douglas's flocks

Some 200 metres from the indicator panel, examples of Douglas's Abeto, a non-native species but planted for experimental purposes, begin to be seen. .

Cake Disposal

Cake Disposal

Arriving at the El Hornillo Hostel, the track is fork, having to take the one that ascends, to the left. .

Hostel of the Nail

Hostel of the Nail

In front of the hostel there is an access to the interior, next to the signpost, by which you can enter the enclosure and continue along the vicinity of the road to reach the beginning of the ecological path. .

Home Path

Home Path

Behind the hostel, and next to a small stone monolith, has its beginning the path that runs the ecological route, which introduces into a forest. .

Olives

Olives

After entering the forest, on the left, you can see the first two birches, first of all, and two others, united in their base, in the background. .

Source

Source

Mojonavalle squirt

Mojonavalle squirt

At the most extreme to the SO of the route, you reach the Mirador de la Chorrera de Mojonavalle. Depending on the time of year, you can see an impressive water show slipping through the stones. .

Paso Arroyo

Paso Arroyo

Soon after that, you can reach the stream of the Sentil (the same one in the jetty), which must be crossed over a stone slab that makes it a bridge. Just pass this one must take the path that continues on the right, by the stream. .

Stone Slabs Bridge

Stone Slabs Bridge

Continuing on the left bank of the stream, there is again a new bridge with stone slabs. In front of him, looking to the right, on the other side of the river, you can see examples of Tejo. .

Road

Road

Once a barrier is passed, which prevents the passage of the vehicles, the road is reached, which must continue to the right of the road, towards the Port of Canencia. .

Departure Road

Departure Road

Before arriving at the first curve, next to a parking bar, part a path to a wooden beacon with yellow indicator, which will link with the return path. .

Displacement

Displacement

To the right of the beacon, part a path, which ascends, next to a couple of stalks, which must be followed to get back into the forest in search of the end of the route. .

Double Disposal

Double Disposal

When you reach this point you must take the path of the tree, in a straight sense, and that of the right (left in the direction of the march) on the turn. .

It is one of the most surprising walks that can be made in the Sierra, as it allows to contemplate the variety and richness of the flora of the area, as well as the Chorrera de Mojonavalle. The number of species is as abundant as it is amazing, as there are, even, some as unusual as Douglas's fir, others of different altitudes such as birch and several protected as stalking and tejo. In addition, the eyes and the wild pines reach infinite heights. All these trees are present on the route. The circular route on foot has its starting point and arrival in the Recretive Area Port of Canencia, its gap is so soft (225 m) that it is hardly appreciated.

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