Malaga hiking El Torcal
Access from Antequera by the road to Villanueva de la Concepción.
About 12 km along the road you will come to the crossing for
El Torcal , once you have gone through the La Boca del Asno
pass. From Málaga, you take the Pedrizas motorway (N
- 331).
El Torcal area form part of the limestone arc of the sub-Betic
sierras, was granted the classification of Natural Park in
1989, representing one of the most important karst landscapes
in the whole of Europe.
There are four geomorphologically distinct areas: Sierra
Pelada, Torcal Alto, Torcal Bajo and Tajos and Laderas.
Is a genuine museum of natural sculptures, modelled by Nature
over the centuries the result of the erosion of limestone
rock that originated on the seabed during the Jurassic period,
about 150 million years ago.
El Torcal area is of indisputable botanical interest. It
is enough to say that the area is home of more than 650 species
of plant, representing almos 100 families.
From the viewpoint of Las Ventanillas you can admire the
magnificent views of Villanueva de la Concepcion, the region
of Campanillas River and Málaga.
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