Cantabria by Bike

Los Llanos, Pido, Winter Sheds of Igüedri, Peak of Oviedo, Mogrovejo

Route 46

By: Javier Tovar, Pedro Ceballos, and Michael González Harbour



Map

Basic Data



Kilometers/Miles
30 / 18
Cumulative ascent: meters/feet
1240 / 4067
Maximum height: meters/feet
1458 / 4782
Duration
4 hours and three quarters
Beginning and end location
Los Llanos
Difficulty
High
Month
August 2007
Recommended period
Summer

Profile

Pictures


foto1
  The route of  the Reconquest, in its section from Cosgaya to Pido,
goes through a forest of oak and beech at the mountainside of the Coriscao peak.

foto2
The hard ascent from Espinama to the winter sheds of Igüedri

foto 3
One of the winter sheds of Igüedri with the Valdecoro peak behind
foto 4
  The track going into Áliva

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The winter sheds of Igüedri

foto 6
  The Peak of Oviedo
foto 7
Close to the peak of Oviedo we find stone circles  that belong to
a neolithic necropolis that is 5000 years old

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The tower of  Mogrovejo (XIII century) framed by the Picos de Europa

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Instructions

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