The best MTB trails around Benagéber

Town hall square and church

The Playeta was badly damaged by the Dana River, but it's still magnificent. To immerse yourself in the Ruta del Agua, the video is here: https://youtu.be/YgxESnd14Ww

A hill that separates the deep ravines of the Tuéjar River from the Turia River. The Barraquena bridge serves as a border to differentiate the beginning of the demanding climb to the Collado Estrecho pass located on the side of the Tiñoso peak. You ascend 450 meters for 5km on a constant 10% ramp with 15% sections. The climb, although very hard, offers impressive landscapes.

The Puente de Barraquena Recreational Area, a beautiful corner of Chelva recovered next to the Turia. It is located in a beautiful setting next to the Turia River (also called the Blanco River), a place where you can enjoy a haven of peace full of pine trees, lush riverside vegetation, deadly fishing or various hiking routes and walks. The interesting thing about the area, in addition to the beautiful forest shelter, is the medieval bridge, which gives its name to the recreational area: the Barraquena Bridge. It is a bridge 60 meters long by 3.40 meters wide, which has a single eye or arch that appears to have the beginnings of some cutwaters. The construction technique used in the bridge is rough stone ashlar for the voussoirs of the semicircular arch, somewhat flattened, and the rest of the construction is made with masonry, which, as a whole, has undergone a reconstruction. in the past, in which the pavement is made with river stones.

La Playeta de Chelva is a beautiful natural corner next to the Molino Puerto recreational area. It is a pool whose waterfalls and pool are located in a recreational area to spend the day along the beautiful Chelva Water Route. Its waterfalls and pool become a traditional bathing area that gets its name from the drifting sand accumulated on the shore. Next to it you can find wooden tables with chairs - fixed - to rest and eat and, very close, at the other end of the river, a picnic area and recreational area whose area is larger for the enjoyment of visitors. It should be said that this area is perfect to spend the day, because in addition to being able to cool off in the river, walk along the beautiful water route, take various trails from this point or simply disconnect in the middle of nature, we will find picnic tables with trees that They provide shade, paelleros and a place enabled to make a torrà, a playground for children, toilets... The confinement of the river upstream with the abundant vegetation create areas of extreme beauty that reveal the Andalusian toponymy: Olinches, Mozaira, Orán...

The "Chorros de Barchel", also known as the "Barchel Wetland" or as the "Barchel waterfall and cave", is a beautiful area declared a Municipal Natural Site since 2016 that is located between the canyons of the Turia River, in the municipality. municipal of Chelva and next to the reservoir and the town of Benagéber. Its most spectacular corner is the source of the Barchel jets, also called the pool or cave of the Barchel Wetland, 50 meters of waterfall to be able to contemplate - when water falls -, which are born at a height and can be contemplated at the foot of the pool to join to the Turia River.

At the end of July, the waterfalls are also beautiful to look at, but hardly have any water.

From here you have beautiful views of the Benagéber reservoir and its dam, which retains the waters of the Turia. It has become an environment frequented in summer by those who seek to cool off in its waters surrounded by nature.