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Natural Park Trails

The Natural Park is divided into 4 different sections located in 3 different provinces: Sevilla, Huelva and Cádiz.

The Park offers 7 walking and biking itineraries with various length and profiles:

 

 1 - Laguna del Jaral                                                                                                                 

This is a rounded trail of about 5.5 km of medium difficulty.

It begins at the kilometric point 46 of the road H - 492 Huelva - Matalascañas. There is a small car park next to a metallic gate that you will have to open and close behind you. The sandy track will take you first around the seasonal Lagoon of La Jara and then up to the top of the Sand Dunes of Asperillo.

Then you will walk down to a small mobile dunes next to some impressive sandy cliffs and the beach.

Beautiful views of the immense green carpet of Pine forests, the dunes and the beaches. Specially good on dune vegetation and Warblers.

 

 2 - Cuesta Maneli                                                                                                                     

 

This is an easy 1.2 km long board path that also goes from the same road H - 492 (kilometric point 39) to the top of the dune, lower here, and then down to the beach.

There is a good car park at the beginning of the trail, controlled in high season.

 

 3 - Laguna de Ribetehilos                                                                                                      

 

This is an easy round board path of about 1.3 km that goes all around the Lagoon of Ribetehilos and  its rosary of adjacent small lagoons.

Specially recommended in the rainy season when the lagoons are flooded.

Recently the access and signposting to the trail from the H - 492 has been improved.

 4 - Poblados Forestales (Forestry Villages)                                                                         

This itinerary has been design for mountain bikes. It will take you some 2 - 3 hours to complete this easy trail.

Its some 20 km long and goes trough several abandoned forestry villages where one goes back in times where hundreds of families lived here and worked in the newly created eucalyptus plantations. Today most of them have been replaced by Stone Pine.

The best place to start from is Cabezudos Forestry Village, some 13 kms south of Almonte on the H - 6248.

 

 5 - Arrayán                                                                                                                                  

 

A walking trail of about 5.6 km through an easy terrain covered with Stone Pine plantations.

The starting point is at the Camping Site Arrayán, in the local road connecting Hinojos and El Rocío.

 

 6 - Marismas del Gudalquivir (Guadalquivir Marshes)                                                        

A cycling trail of about 65km that will take you through the transformed and natural marshes on dirt tracks.

A good starting point would be the Venta del Cruce at the junction of the roads SE - 659 and SE - 666 south of La Puebla del Río. 

It is a very good itinerary for birdwatching so you can 

easily spend the whole day exploring the area.

Eventually you will get to Jose Antonio Valverde Visitor Centre where you will find toilettes and a bar for snacks and refreshments. 

 

 7 - Pinar de la Algaida                                                                                                              
A walking trail of about 5.6 km that goes through a dense Stone Pine forest.

From the car park you will get first to the Laguna del Tarelo, one of the best spots in the region for the White-headed Duck.

The access is from the Bonanza district of Sanlúcar de

Barrameda.

 

For more information on these trails please visit http://www.juntadeandalucia.es.