Salto de Bierge
Remember that you are in a Site of Nature Conservation Interest. Please respect the surroundings and allow future generations to enjoy it as well.
Below are some helpful tips so that you may enjoy the landscape without leaving a trace.
- Get informed on the possibilities that this environment offers based on your interests and capabilities before you arrive. Remember that places are limited.
- Don’t veer off the marked trails so as not to disturb wildlife and to better perceive the splendour of the landscapes.
- Remember to pick up all rubbish and deposit it in the appropriate containers in the vicinity of El Salto.
- The parking area is regulated. Follow the parking signs.
- Lighting fires is not allowed. If you see smoke or anything strange, call 112 (SOS Aragón).
- Camping in all of its forms is totally prohibited.
- Do not disturb the peace of the nature.
- Picking plants, bushes, and gathering fossils and rocks is prohibited.
Below, you will find the regulations applicable to El Salto de Bierge, given its location in the protected area, of the La Sierra y los Cañones de Guara Natural Park.
- Dogs may not be let loose if they are not for hunting, livestock, or other traditional uses such as truffle hunting.
- No establishment may be set up nor any stationary or traveling stalls located outside urban centres, except where otherwise stated by the municipal regulations of each villlage.
- No tents, awnings, parasols, or any other temporary element may be set up in the public water domain.
- The use of lilos, small boats, boards, and any similar object is prohibited.
- The use of acoustic media is not permitted except for those expressly authorized.
- It is prohibited to stay the night using the installation of huts, cabins, tents, awnings, caravans, motor homes, vehicles, or any other temporary element, except where otherwise stated by the legislation on camping in the mountains.
- The release of gas, incendiary or hot air balloons, rockets, fireworks, and flares is prohibited, as well as the use of firecrackers outside urban centres.
- Do not use soaps or pour liquids in waterways.
- Do not leave rubbish outside the containers.
For further information, you can consult the following documents (in Spanish):
- Plan de Uso y Gestión
- Plan de Ordenación de los Recursos Naturales
- Modificación del Plan de Ordenación de los Recursos Naturales
- Regulacion de la escalada
El Salto de Bierge is a place for entertainment and enjoyment, with a combination of outstanding nature and activities from the Sierra’s inhabitants, first as a flour mill and then for hydroelectric use. Both have been able to coexist for decades, and it is our responsibility to preserve them.
The Alcanadre river, from its spring in Sierra de Galardón to its mouth in the Cinca, dazzles us with its cliffs, upwellings, and ravines. Today, it is a paradise for canyoners; one of the adventure sports that attracts most visitors to Guara.
The Alcanadre runs across the Valle de Rodellar and, when it reaches Bierge, its currents relax before a dam for hydrological use. We are in El Salto de Bierge, one of Guara’s most famous and breath-taking spots.
El Salto de Bierge is a connection point for many walking trails. It is here where the Camino Natural del Somontano ends, and La Hoya de Huesca begins. Other hiking, mountain biking, equestrian, ornithological, and accessible routes hold this destination as an epicentre for nature lovers.
In the summer, this place becomes a magnet for bathers, owing to the lazy waters found before the dam.