ATALEZA - Route 3.-El bosque

Starting point     Collado del Moro
Check Point                           Same
Distance                      6 kilometers
Duration                               2horas

Difficulty low               in the 90%

Point of contact:
          With 2 the collado of Atamaría
          With 4 route of the road to Ashes
COMMENTS:
It is the path of the orchids in the months of February-March

ITINERARY
          Collado del Moro - Collado de la Caracolera - Collado de Atamaría .- Los Altos-station service - Collado del Moro.
First leg: Collado del Moro - Collado de Atamaría


Due to the shortage of parking in collado must leave the car at the beginning of the road from the Llano del Beal and the bike lane reach Collado del Moro, to start our journey on the road to ash.
          We started the journey in the CR 92 and will remain there until the Collado de Atamaría.
          We will find alongside the road olivardilla, asperón, aliaga, pincelillo, etc.. It advanced the way we see our right to a cave several meters deep, possibly excavated when the road was built, some 70 years ago and observe the filling of the Bay Portmán by sterile laundry Roberto.
       Continuando nuestro camino, después de encontrar zarzaparrilla enredada en pinos y espinos, a unos 300 metros de una curva muy pronunciada, llegamos a una pequeña explanada, que fue en su día un cargador de leña, es el collado de La Caracolera.- En Atamaría se dice : “ si truena en la Caracolera, agua espera”


In a cement pole there at the height of it, we will find the path of the signal indicating a change of direction. We should leave the road and take the path that goes to the left.
          Below where the trail begins in the early months of the year we can see bellorita.
          We continue this path, soon we will see the coast of Agüicas, with a small islet near the beach largest.
          The Agüicas are 2 bays, greater than another, separated by a rocky promontory. Access to them is difficult, but it can be done by the left of the big beach when the sea is not very upset.

To move from one beach to another is necessary wet waist.
          Continuing along the path we pass a checkpoint of the Guardia Civil and still see the sea to reach the Collado de Atamaría, where again find another checkpoint.
          Collado This is the path that goes from Atamaría goes to the beach of Agüicas, with a few fishermen (myself included) who descend on these coves.
          Under the Collado de Atamaría found ravine Water Amargas, ending the call Cala Atamaría, inaccessible for many years because of several landslides. He also calls this place the Corral de D. Joseph, in memory of a teacher Atamaría called D. José
Leira, who always went to fish here.
          In collado, rotates to the left and continue the path that is very definite and even different brands in the trees. At about 300 meters from the collado are 2 paths and continue by the right. When you get off the collado see several junipers on both sides of the road.
          Continuing on the path, to reach a forecourt, are 2 tracks from the land and take on the left to arrive at Los Altos and upon arrival at La Colina, rotates to the left, down a slope of steep slopes and taking after again left.
          We spent by the service station and again we on the left like at the checkpoint.
Continuing on this road will pass the promenade of La Carrasquilla and get the road Portmán, continuing to the left will lead to the Moro collado
          Along the route, in the early months of the year, we can see different kinds of orchids: abejeras (Ophrys speculum), collina (orchis collina) and papilonáceas (Orchis papilionacea) of the family of Orquidáceas. Gladioli (Gladiolus illiricus) of the Iridáceas, rosemary male (Lavandula stoechas), aliagas (Calicotome infects sub. Intermediate), which flourishes in the early months of the year, alhucemilla (Lavandula multifida), which blooms in the spring, the aromatic plant family cantueso and rosemary male.

Also find thistle borriquero and milk thistle (Silybum marianum), which blooms in spring and Frosted (Mesembryanthemum cristallinum).
          At the end of last stretch find rabogato. In this area tend to go every year students of botany at the University of Murcia (accompanied by their teachers).
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