1 2 Route of the PUERTOS DE FUENTES CARTOGRAPHY Cartography: Mapa Topográfico Nacional (IGN) Escala 1:25.000 Hojas 82-II Los Tojos, 83-I y 83-IV La Costana. Proyección UTM, Huso 30N.

Longitudinal profile of the route:

ALTITUDE (m) 1300 3 4 Alto de la Cruz de Fuentes 1200 Itinerary 1100 1000 900 DESCRIPTION 800 Pozo de La Arbencia 700 600 Bárcena Mayor The walk starts in Bárcena Mayor, the only centre of 500 Braña Castrillo 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 population within the Saja-Besaya Natural Park, which DISTANCE (Km) was named an Historic Artistic place in 1979. The FACT SHEET route allows for a complete exploration of the river Lodar, ascending the entire Barranco de Fuentes river Duration 7 h (one way) Cumulative loss (-) 162 m 54 6 basin until its waters join the river Hormigas in Pozo Height gained 765 m Horizontal distance 17 km (one way) de La Arbencia, and afterwards to Puertos de Height lost - Type of route linear Fuentes. Cumulative gain (+) 923 m Type of ground track This route is an excellent way to explore the Natural Puertos de Fuentes Park, because it groups most of the ecosystems of this Place names UTM Coordinates Altitude protected space, from prairies to pastures of the

surrounding areas of the Alto de la Cruz de Fuentes. Starting point: There are typical lines of holly, until the thick beech Bárcena Mayor car park 30 T 402822 4777951 505 m forests that appear as we ascend, with oak and Braña Castrillo 30 T 403664 4776721 526 m chesnut trees around Bárcena Mayor, and the river Pozo de la Arbencia 30 T 406950 4771450 790 m bank environment of the water course. 6 Finish: Alto de la Cruz de Fuentes 30 T 402629 4768385 1.270 m 1.] Local architecture in Bárcena Mayor After checking out the fluvial environment at the start 2.] Spring scene of the beech forest of the walk, the path ascends little by little across the 3.] Spring and Puertos de Fuentes beech forests of Bárcena Mayor, where we can 4.] Bárcena Mayor under a white winter blanket HABITATS 5.] European Scops Owl (Otus scops) observe, next to the track, the Asperal yew tree, 91EO* Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion 6.] Waterfall in the river Hormigas which is number 179 in the Open Inventory of incanae, Salicion albae). 7.] Yew tree (Taxus baccata) Peculiar Trees of . 8.] Old world swallowtail (Papilio machaon) 9230 Galicio-Portuguese oak woods with Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica. One of the most attractive points on the route, after 9120 Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the walking some kilometres through the forest, is the group of small waterfalls and pools of La Arbencia, shrublayer (Quercion roboripetraeae or Ilici-Fagenion). where the Barranco de Fuentes and the river Hormigas 4030 European dry heaths. converge to form the river Lodar. 7 8 9380 Forests of Ilex aquifolium. As we ascend, we leave the Alto de Abedules to the 6230* Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas (and right to finally reach the Alto de la Cruz de Fuentes. submountain areas in Continental Europe). 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels

(*) Priority habitat: habitats in the European Union which the European Council has a special responsibility, due to their delicate state. Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora. Red de Espacios Naturales Protegidos de Cantabria [Walking routes throughout the Protected Natural Spaces of Cantabria]

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European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), Pyrenaen desman 0 Road 2 (Galemys pyrenaicus), European otter (Lutra lutra), Beech 3 - marten (Martes foina), Common genet (Genetta genetta), Track Wild boar (Sus scrofa), Red deer (Cervus elaphus), Spanish mole (Talpa occidentalis). · Amphibians: Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), Common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans), Common frog (Rana temporaria), Common toad (Bufo bufo), Palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus), Alpine newt (Mesotriton alpestris). CONSEJERÍA DE GANADERÍA, PESCA red cánt abra de desarrollo rural Y DESARROLLO RURAL

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