Technical information

 Type of route: return hiking route 

Departure point: Rodellar

 KM: 9

 Duration: 3 h

Gradient: 350 m

 MIDE: 2-2-2-2

 

Access

On A-22 take 77 exit to Abiego (taking the road A-1229). Once in Abiego, take road A-1227 towards Bierge. Then take HU-341 until you reach Rodellar (18 km). In Rodellar, follow the signposts to the Hermitage of Virgen del Castillo, descend to the bottom of the ravine while following the signposts to Mascún, then begin to overcome towards the cave of Andrebot (and the ravine which has the same name) until you reach the dolmen of La Losamora.


Route description 

The route begins at the Northern sector of Rodellar, in the neighborhood of La Honguera, where we take downhill towards the Mascún riverbed. The path passes nearby the signpost to the Ravine of Mascún, and continues until you see an arrow which indicates the Dolmen of Losa Mora on the left, and ascends by the Ravine of Andrebot. The entire path runs through a rocky atmosphere. We return by the same path.


Main Species

Representative bird: Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraría)

Residents: Lammergeyer, Griffon Vulture, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Golden Eagle, Rock Dove, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Eagle Owl (rare), Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Crag Martin, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, White-throated Dipper (rare), Eurasian Wren, European Robin, Black Redstart, Blue Rock Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Sardinian Warbler, Common Firecrest, Long-tailed Tit, Crested Tit, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit,  Eurasian Jay, Magpie, Alpine Chough, Eurasian Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Common Raven, House Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Rock Sparrow, Chaffinch, European Serin, European Greenfinch, European Goldfinch, Linnet, Red Crossbill (irruptive), Cirl Bunting, Rock Bunting.

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

Winter visitors: Meadow Pipit, Alpine Accentor, Fieldfare, Song Thrush, Eurasian Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Wallcreeper, White-winged Snowfinch (rare), Brambling (rare), Eurasian Siskin (irruptive), Hawfinch, Yellowhammer.

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


Photo gallery

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Map

Rodellar