Stage 5 belonging to Route 1: Barruelo de Santullán - Balboa

Linear route 31.4 km long and an estimated duration of 3 hours 15 minutes with a gradient of 250 meters. Forest track (60%) and road (40%). Medium-high difficulty. Recommended time: all year round, avoiding rainy seasons.

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Tips and recommendations

After rainy seasons, the tracks in this section can have very muddy steps.


Points of interest

At different points along the route, the route intersects with the La Robla railway, also called "El Hullero", originally created to transport coal to the blast furnaces of Vizcaya.

Near Prado de la Guzpeña is the "Prado chimney", 36 m high, which along with 2 other chimneys and 12 ovens was built in 1960 for the transformation of coal into coke.

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