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Tamara and El Puntillo Springs Discovery Trail

Approximate duration: 4 hours.
Difficulty: None. Is reached via a well-kept and well-marked path.
Time: The whole year.
Longitude: 7 km. in total.
Starting point: From Bierge head towards the " Salto de Bierge ". Cars should be left in the car-park located close to the village.

Desde esta ruta se puede ver a los barranquistas descendiendo el Alcanadre
Foto: Ignacio Pardinilla

The road that leads to Tamara and the Puntillo's sources is perfectly signalled, so there is no possibility of confusion to follow the layout.
The hint that we should take begins in the entrance of the parking and few meters of the beginning we will find the first of the indicative splints.

After surrounding the parking for the superior part, in direction to a field of almond trees, we will be able to obtain a complete perspective of the bed of the river Alcanadre checked for the Jump of Bierge.

We should continue walking for the same hint until arriving to a poster where is marked the beginning of the path that leads to the sources. Along the journey it is possible to enjoy wide panoramas of the ravine for which reflects the river Alcanadre, dug among mountains formed by gritty rock and conglomerate. The egg of Morrano and the Head of Guara presides over this landscape.

Along the journey is crossed a fully Mediterranean forest of oaks and pine carrasco, as well as numerous ravines. When you arrive to the Barranco Ceguero, marker 23, is advisable to descend for him, with the purpose of admiring the surprising source of Puntillo.

After their visit, we should return again to the main path. Going from this point, it is only to travel the last tract of the itinerary, to arrive in 25 minutes to the Tamara's Source . In this place a great deep pool, ideal to refresh in the hot days of summer exists. Before abandoning her, it is recommended to contemplate from the high of some rocks the spectacular straits of the Fornazos, formed starting from the break up that the cold waters of the Alcanadre have originated in the calcareous rock.

The return can be made for the same road, or, to descend for the channel of the river until reaching the source of Puntillo in only 15 minutes, for what requires crossing the Alcanadre in several occasions but without necessity of swimming. .

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