Technical information

Type of route: circular hiking route 

Departure point: Naval

 KM: 2,8

 Duration: 45 min

 Gradient: 40 m

 MIDE: 1-2-2-1

 

Access

About 1 km before reaching Naval, take the way to the salt pans, where you will park the car and begin the circular route on foot.


Route description

2,8 km walking circular route that runs along various habitats, among which we may single out the linear riverbank wooded area of the Ravine of Llastra, as well as the cereal, almonds and olive cultivated fields, with ruderal vegetation on the banks; the entire route is bordered by a small limestone relief, mainly covered by aleppo pines and holm oak woodland vegetation, together with an undergrowth of scrubland, dominated by hawthorns.


Main Species

Representative bird: Red Kite (Milvus milvus)

Residents: Red-legged Partridge, Red Kite, Lammergeyer, Griffon Vulture, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Rock Dove, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Eagle Owl (rare), Little Owl, Long-eared Owl, Hoopoe, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Crested Lark, Wood Lark, Crag Martin, Pied Wagtail, Eurasian Wren, European Robin, Black Redstart, Blue Rock Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Eurasian Blackcap, Sardinian Warbler, Common Firecrest, Long-tailed Tit, Crested Tit, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Jay, Magpie, Eurasian Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Common Raven, Spotless Starling, Common Starling, House Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Rock Sparrow, Chaffinch, European Serin, European Greenfinch, European Goldfinch, Linnet, Red Crossbill (irruptive), Cirl Bunting, Rock Bunting, Corn Bunting.

Summer migrants: Black Kite, Egyptian Vulture, Short-toed Snake Eagle, Booted Eagle, European Turtle Dove, Common Cuckoo, European Nightjar, Red-necked Nightjar, Common Swift, European Bee-eater, Barn Swallow, Red-rumped Swallow, House Martin, Common Nightingale, Black-eared Wheatear, Common Rock Thrush, Melodious Warbler, Subalpine Warbler, Western Orphean Warbler, Bonelli’s Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Woodchat Shrike.

Winter visitors: Northern Goshawk, Merlin, Eurasian Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Alpine Accentor, Fieldfare, Song Thrush, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Brambling (rare), Eurasian Siskin (irruptive), Hawfinch, Yellowhammer.

Passage migrants: European Honey-buzzard, Harriers, Common Crane, Eurasian Woodcock (rare), Tree Pipit, Water Pipit, Common Redstart, Northern Wheatear, Redwing, Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler, Common Whitethroat,  Pied Flycatcher.


Photo gallery

  • Camino de la Sal 2
  • Camino de la Sal 3
  • Camino de la Sal 4
  • Camino de la Sal
  • milano real

Map 

Naval