{"id":30321,"date":"2024-04-06T22:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T20:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/?p=30321\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:36:12","slug":"senderismo-en-gaucin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/en\/blog\/senderismo-en-gaucin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking in Gauc\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--1 wp-block-paragraph\">We walked this weekend the path of La Herriza and La Alquer\u00eda with a group of walkers promoted by the tourist office of Gauc\u00edn. This classic route carries the number XI among the remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitgaucin.com\/senderismo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offer of trails<\/a> that run through the municipality. It has recently been approved as a Small Route P.R. and is very well signposted. Circular route of 13 km and 400 meters of positive difference in altitude. Low-medium difficulty.    <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Senderismo-en-La-herriza-La-Alqueria.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking in La herriza La Alquer\u00eda\" class=\"wp-image-30324 lazyload\" title=\"Hiking in La herriza La Alquer\u00eda\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Senderismo-en-La-herriza-La-Alqueria.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking in La herriza La Alquer\u00eda\" class=\"wp-image-30324\" title=\"Hiking in La herriza La Alquer\u00eda\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Senderismo-en-La-herriza-La-Alqueria.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Senderismo-en-La-herriza-La-Alqueria-380x253.jpg 380w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Senderismo-en-La-herriza-La-Alqueria-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Among holm oaks (<em>Quercus rotundifolia<\/em>) and hairy thorny broom (<em>Callicotome villosa<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This trail goes around the Hacho de Gauc\u00edn, a very attractive and well-known landmark that culminates at an altitude of 1,011 m and marks the entrance to the Genal Valley. However, this P.R. does not seek the geodesic point and stays on the slopes of the Hacho. The whole environment is very interesting for the diversity of its Mediterranean scrub and its large <strong>mixed forest composed of holm oaks, cork oaks<\/strong> (which in our areas we call chaparros), <strong>gall oaks and wild olive trees<\/strong>, dotted with ash trees and an abundance of shrubs.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pistacia-lentiscus.jpg\" alt=\"Mastic flower Pistacia lentiscus\" class=\"wp-image-30325 lazyload\" title=\"Pistacia lentiscus\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1051\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pistacia-lentiscus.jpg\" alt=\"Mastic flower Pistacia lentiscus\" class=\"wp-image-30325\" title=\"Pistacia lentiscus\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pistacia-lentiscus.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pistacia-lentiscus-380x285.jpg 380w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pistacia-lentiscus-800x601.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Male flowers of mastic tree (<em>Pistacia lentiscus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We start the route at the tourist office walking towards Jimena de la Frontera. The haze of the day covers the sky and visibility is very low. Today we can not see Gibraltar or the Djebel Musa&#8230; At the crossroads towards the Colmenar, the muleteer&#8217;s path really begins, crossing a beautiful meadow between Mediterranean vegetation. <strong>We enjoy the striking reddish flowering mastic using a thread story<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cabra-en-Gaucin.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking in La herriza La Alquer\u00eda\" class=\"wp-image-30326 lazyload\" title=\"Goat in Gauc\u00edn\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cabra-en-Gaucin.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking in La herriza La Alquer\u00eda\" class=\"wp-image-30326\" title=\"Goat in Gauc\u00edn\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cabra-en-Gaucin.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cabra-en-Gaucin-380x253.jpg 380w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cabra-en-Gaucin-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A friendly goat browsing and looking for cuddles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We came across a nice goat looking for attention and cuddles&#8230; Good photos and laughter assured in the whole group&#8230; even some walkers discovering a shepherdess vocation. <strong>We continued walking, enjoying everything that the path could provide us<\/strong>: Corn Bunting asparagus, thyme for infusions, beautiful views over the valley of the Guadiaro, the sound of small streams formed after the rains, without forgetting the beautiful flowers of the Lilly pink (<em>Aphyllanthes monspeliensis<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/guia-de-naturaleza.jpg\" alt=\"nature guide Hiking in La herriza La Alqueria\" class=\"wp-image-30327 lazyload\" title=\"nature guide\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1045\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/guia-de-naturaleza.jpg\" alt=\"nature guide Hiking in La herriza La Alqueria\" class=\"wp-image-30327\" title=\"nature guide\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/guia-de-naturaleza.jpg 1045w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/guia-de-naturaleza-380x285.jpg 380w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/guia-de-naturaleza-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">See the caption of the previous photo !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also had time to learn&#8230; talking about the adaptations of plants to the Mediterranean climate, <strong>a typical woody vegetation with hardened leaves that allows them to survive water stress<\/strong>. Of course, we must get to know the <em>Quercus<\/em> of the bush, learning to identify them, either by their foliage or their bark. The most Mediterranean of them is undoubtedly the kermes oak (<em>Q. coccifera<\/em>) with its shrubby, evergreen, shiny and very prickly leaves. Even the dome of the acorn prickles on this plant.   <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Quercus-faginea.jpg\" alt=\"tender leaves of gall oak Quercus faginea\" class=\"wp-image-30328 lazyload\" title=\"Quercus faginea\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Quercus-faginea.jpg\" alt=\"tender leaves of gall oak Quercus faginea\" class=\"wp-image-30328\" title=\"Quercus faginea\"><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The beautiful young leaves of the gall oak (<em>Quercus faginea<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With spring, <strong>a festival of green hues<\/strong> invade the slopes of the mountain. All the new foliage of the gall oaks. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bosque-mixto.jpg\" alt=\"tender leaves of gall oak Quercus faginea\" class=\"wp-image-30330 lazyload\" title=\"Mixed forest\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Bosque-mixto.jpg\" alt=\"tender leaves of gall oak Quercus faginea\" class=\"wp-image-30330\" title=\"Mixed forest\"><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The forest is full of nuances.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230; the striking contrasts between the new cream-colored leaves and the old glaucous green leaves of the oaks, without forgetting some trees covered with their yellowish flowers. <strong>The landscape becomes very varied and the forest is full of nuances<\/strong>&#8230; and with the delicacy of the flowers of the hawthorns.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/La-Herriza.jpg\" alt=\"  The horseshoe of Gauc\u00edn  \" class=\"wp-image-30329 lazyload\" title=\"La Herriza\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/La-Herriza.jpg\" alt=\"  The horseshoe of Gauc\u00edn  \" class=\"wp-image-30329\" title=\"La Herriza\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/La-Herriza.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/La-Herriza-380x253.jpg 380w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/La-Herriza-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">La Herriza de Gauc\u00edn, a very cozy and quiet hotel-restaurant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We enjoyed a stop at La Herriza, a glamorous place located at the foot of the trail. We appreciated the warm welcome from all the staff and all the beauty of the farmhouse. The establishment is located halfway and at the low point of the trail. So we had a good stretch left and the bulk of the climb, which with 400 meters of elevation gain, is already noticeable in the legs.   <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Paeonia-broteroi-scaled.jpg\" data-id=\"30332\" alt=\"Paeonia broteroi\" class=\"wp-image-30332 lazyload\" title=\"Paeonia broteroi\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" data-id=\"30332\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Paeonia-broteroi-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Paeonia broteroi\" class=\"wp-image-30332\" title=\"Paeonia broteroi\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Paeonia-broteroi-scaled.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Paeonia-broteroi-scaled-380x285.jpg 380w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Paeonia-broteroi-scaled-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brotero Peony (<em>Paeonia broteroi<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Euphrydryas-aurinia-scaled-380x285.jpg\" data-id=\"30331\" alt=\"Euphrydryas aurinia\" class=\"wp-image-30331 lazyload\" title=\"Euphrydryas aurinia\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" data-id=\"30331\" src=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Euphrydryas-aurinia-scaled-380x285.jpg\" alt=\"Euphrydryas aurinia\" class=\"wp-image-30331\" title=\"Euphrydryas aurinia\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Euphrydryas-aurinia-scaled-380x285.jpg 380w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Euphrydryas-aurinia-scaled-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/g3-guides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Euphrydryas-aurinia-scaled.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Marsh&#8221; Fritillary<br\/>(<em>Euphrydryas aurinia<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The way back brought us beautiful surprises. And we finished our tour on time. We would like to thank the group for their good company in the countryside, Josef\u00ed from the Tourism Office and Anne from the Gauc\u00edn Town Hall for making this route possible.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked this weekend the path of La Herriza and La Alquer\u00eda with a group of walkers promoted by the tourist office of Gauc\u00edn. This classic route carries the number XI among the remarkable offer of trails that run through the municipality. 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