Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas and La Hoz de Vicente
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Recorded distance
301 km
Riding-time estimate
4 h 52
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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From Tormón it runs 301 km to Tormón; allow about 4 h 52 of riding. The stops in between: marmalo IV, La Hoz de Vicente and back through marmalo IV. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas
Teruel is one of the emptiest provinces in Europe, and it is one of the best for riders who like to be alone. Around the headwaters of the Turia the land is high, dry and broken into long ridges, with pine forests, red clay and wide sky. The white goats of the shelter's name belong to a world of shepherding and rock painting, as the paintings here are in the Levantine style, with figures of animals in red pigment, and this is one of many shelters in the region.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Abrigo de las Cabras Blancas is where the day begins. Next is marmalo IV.
2. marmalo IV
Villar del Humo is a village of a few hundred people in the Serranía de Cuenca, a high land of pine forest, limestone gorges and sparse villages that lies between the cities of Cuenca and Valencia. The Marmalo shelters nearby, of which this is the fourth, are among the most famous sites of Levantine rock art in the region, with painted figures of hunters, animals and scenes that archaeologists have studied for a century. They are part of the Mediterranean-arc group UNESCO listed in 1998, and the village has made them a point of local pride.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
marmalo IV comes up 66 km in. Next is La Hoz de Vicente.
3. La Hoz de Vicente
The Cabriel is one of the few rivers in Spain that still runs clean and fast through a deep canyon, and the Hoz de Vicente stands on its upper stretch, where Cuenca meets Valencia. The Hoces del Cabriel are a natural park of limestone gorges, pine woods and river flats, with kingfishers, otters and, on the rock faces, griffon vultures. The Hoz de Vicente shelter is one of the painted places of this wild corner, a Levantine rock art site listed within the UNESCO group of the Mediterranean Basin.