Route 1: Barruelo de Santullán - Balboa - Departure from Guardo
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High resolution image. This link will open using lightbox, there may be a context switch We leave Guardo on the CL-615 highway towards Velilla del Río Carrión. In this town, just before crossing the bridge over the Carrión, the route deviates to the right along the Carretera de los Pantanos to head to the nearby Sierra del Brezo holiday colony, made up of a handful of small houses located at the foot of the Velilla Pine Forest.
On the other side of the neighborhood, the road narrows, as it begins a sudden ascent to the top of the Compuerto dam. There the asphalt ends in a widening as a viewpoint that has no exit other than a long, narrow tunnel that gives access to the valley of the Cueva stream and the remote center of Valcobero.