Mountain · Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís), Spain

Ruta del Cares

Twelve kilometres cut into a cliff face for a hydro channel, now the most walked path in northern Spain.

Ruta del Cares is in Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís), and this is Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís) — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 6 hours · Spring and autumn · 43.222°N, -4.900°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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The record

What this atlas holds about Ruta del Cares, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Mountain
Give it: 6 hours
Season: Spring and autumn
Where: 43.222°N, -4.900°E
In: Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís)