Picos de Europa PR-PNPE23 Ruta Horcados Rojos


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Picos de Europa

PR-PNPE 23 - Ruta Horcados Rojos

30th August 2016

Distance Time Elevation in meters

Km Elapsed
Hrs-Mins Moving
Hrs-Mins Gain Loss Min Max

12.55 5H22 639 639 1,738 2,377

Location Map

Fuente De

El Cable

Cable Car Upper Station

The idea of connecting a high-mountain area in the heart of Picos de Europa with Fuente Dé was firstly developed by José Antonio Odriozola, former president of the ''Federación Española de Montañism (Spanish Mountaineering Federation), whose family was from Comarca of Liébana. The line was designed by engineer José Calavera Ruiz and architect Ángel Hernández Morales. Its construction started in November 1962 and the opening ceremony was held on August 21, 1966.

The line covers a 753-metre (2,470 ft) vertical drop. Its bottom station is located at 1,090-metre (3,576 ft) and the upper one at 1,850-metre (6,070 ft). Cabins transport capacity is of 20 people and the trip, which does not have intermediate stops, lasts 3'40". The line has a single span and two independent sections with one cabin each, that can be operated separately. Cables length is 1,450-metre (4,757 ft) and the speed of cabins is usually 10-metre (33 ft)/s Fuente Dé ropeway is the longest single-span aerial lift of Europe.
(Wikipedia)

Cable Car Upper Station at 1,850m

Group photo with Peña Remoña 2,242m in the background

Goat, with Peña Olvidada 2,406m in the background

The trail goes off at 90 degrees at Horcadina de Covarrobles, sign posted PR-PNPE23.
The reddish-brown peak top right is Torre de Horcados Rojos. The depression is Hoyo Sin Tierra.