Caminito del Rey

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It is located 11 kilometers from our house. Since the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were located in this environment a set of rail and hydroelectric infrastructures that vertebrated the connections and the road network that we have inherited in the XXI century.

Declared by the Junta de Andalucía as a Natural Site in 1989, it had already been classified as a Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA) in 1987 and, since 2006, is part of the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean Andalusia-Morocco and the list of Sites of Community Importance of the Mediterranean Biogeographic Region.

This natural enclave has been a focus of influence for the settlement and development of human groups in the environment of the natural area of Gaitanejo and El Chorro from prehistoric times to the present day, documented by the abundance of archaeological sites.