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| Page Type: Area/Range Location: Huesca, Spain, Europe Lat/Lon: 42.29390°N / 0.2366°W Activities: Hiking, Mountaineering Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Elevation: 6814 ft / 2077 m | Page By: Rafa Bartolome Created/Edited: Aug 29, 2008 / Apr 8, 2009 Object ID: 436586 Hits: 1285 Loading... Page Score: 87.52% - 6 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
OverviewThe Pre-Pirineos de Huesca are a set of small ranges at South of the main line of Pyrenees and at North or North-West of the city of Huesca but the most importants are Jaca, Riglos, Loarre and Guara.Getting There
All the access of the ranges are possibles from Huesca, main city of same province.
Riglos
-from Huesca A-132
Loarre
-from Huesca: A-132 to Ayerbe and A-1206 to Loarre.
Guara :
-from Huesca N-240 in direction Barbastro and A-1299 (signal "Sierra de Guara").1.Jacetania
The most important village of this area is Jaca.
At South of Jaca it's the little massif of Peña Oroel (1783m) always visible from the village. It's a wonderfull watchtower of the big peaks of the nearby area of Canfranc.
At North of Jaca it exists some small peaks near of the Massif of Collarada (2885m) and the area of Canfranc as Pietrola (1465m) or Grosín (1422m).
At South-West of Jaca it's the range of San Juan de la Peña with the peaks San Salvador (1547m) and Cuculo (1549m). The Monastery of San Juan de la Peña is an interesting place to visit.
At West it's the important village of Sabiñanigo, at South of Valley of Tena, with important mountains as Oturia (1920m), with the famous route of the hermitages and caves.2. Riglos
The impressive Mallos de Riglos is a rock-climbing's paradise but as well it's an interesting landscape to some hikes.
Villages: Carcavilla, Murillo de Gallego, Riglos, Sta Eulalia de Gallego
3. Sierra de Loarre
The most important mountain is Peña Gratal (1574m), an impressive peak good visible from the road. The rest of summits have less interest: Pusilibro (1597m), Pico de la Calma (1584m).
Villages: Ayerbe, Loarre, Santa Engracia, Aniés
The village of Loarre is famous for the wonderfull castle (XIth century), main touristic attraction of the area. The Castle of Loarre appears in a lot of films about Middle Earth and the Crusades as the recent Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott.
4. Sierra de Guara
The Sierra de Guara is in the Nature Reserve of the Guara's Range and Canyons of great landscape and natural interest. The action of the water for centuries has been eroding the limy rock originating deep canyons, narrows pass, ravines, gorges and waterfalls that have done of this zone of pre-pyrenees of Huesca the paradise of the descenders of canyons, which does that anually it receives great number of visitors specially of France.
Besides the natural interest it is not necessary to forget the cultural one due to the nice villages integrated to the zone as it is the case of Alquezar, village of medieval streets in which the former arabic fortress persists and which they it turn into one of the most beautiful of Aragon. It is typical of the Sierra de Guara the presence of uninhabited villages that are in the habit of serving of link between the routes of trekking.
Though the sports habitual activity is the decrease of canyons or "canyoning" ("barranquismo") with ropes, harness, helmet and suits of neopreno also there are nice routes of mountain with air of Pyrenees. The highest and emblematic point of the Sierra de Guara is the Tozal de Guara (2077m).
Villages: Belsué, Nocito, Vadiello, Alquézar, Rodellar.
Red TapeThe Park of Guara have restrictions about camping, wildlife,...External LinksJaca
Peña Oroel: images and text (spanish) about this peak.
Cuculo: images and text (spanish) about this peak.
San Salvador: images and text (spanish) about this peak.
Guara:
Pirineo.com: Guara (Spanish)
La Fueva: village with some routes about Guara on the page (Spanish).
Consumer: Parque Natural de Guara: information about the park (Spanish).
Gobierno de Aragón (Spanish)
Spain.info: Guara
Riglos:
cai Aragón: some information about Riglos (Spanish).
gdargaud.net some rock-climbs (English)
malditoduende: a few of routes of rock-climbing (Spanish).
revistaiberica: route quebrantahuesos (Spanish)
Loarre
Wikipedia: Castle of Loarre Camping*Campings:
-Guara:
-Alquézar: Rio Vero, Alquezar
-Rodellar: Mascún, El Puente
-Yaso: Altaoja Guara.
-Panzano: Cañones de Guara y Formiga.
-Huesca:
San Jorge
*Albergues/Aubergues:
-Alquézar: Albergue Rural de Guara
-Rodellar : Las Almunias.
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