Path of the Jump of the Water

Description of Path of the Jump of the Water

We leave Matute

The route begins in the Plaza de Matute (0h 00min) where the church is located and we can leave our vehicle. In this square, just at the beginning of the main street, there is a sign with information about the route, which starts from this point and is marked with white and purple marks.

Shortly after crossing the Calle Mayor, we will leave it on our left, as the path continues along Calle Orive until it leaves the locality, extending just 200m in a winding but gentle ascent, along a track in good condition until we find another informative sign indicating the detour (0h 10min).​

From here we can contemplate the contrast of the landscape, the reddish of the enormous rocks with the green of the vegetation of the shady ravine.

Inside the ravine

Leaving the track behind us, the path descends, prepared with wooden steps in its final part, quickly in search of the Rigüelos stream.

As soon as these stairs are finished, the path joined to an irrigation ditch goes up the riverbed and enters the Manzanar ravine. After this first contact with the interior of the ravine this gains width to give way to a small clearing.

The path continues the course of the stream crossing it several times with footbridges prepared for it, ascending and entering more in the ravine until arriving at a gorge where the Jump of the Water awaits us (0h 45min).​

Following in our footsteps

In this place the route ends and the conditioned path, some enormous rocks block the passage, although an artisan staircase, made of trunks, facilitates us to save the 3 or 4 meters of climbing that separate us from having another perspective of the narrow ravine. The way back is made by the same route, going up to the Detour (1 h 20min) and returning by the track to the Square of Matute (1h 30min).

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Technical data sheet of the route

Total distance. 3,6 Km

Total time. 1h 30min

Back and forth without counting the time spent if we climb to the rock at the end

Time of year. Any time of the year

Preferably in not very dry season, to be able to enjoy the stream with the sufficient flow.

Required equipment.  Nothing special.

Clothes and sports or mountain footwear according to the time of the year and the weather. Consult our list of material and equipment for hiking. Read more.

Slope acumulate. 302 m   Slope positive. 151 m   Slope negative. 151 m

Difficulty. Low

Physical

It does not have any physical difficulty, except for a couple of small steeps, the path runs comfortably ascending softly next to the course of the stream up to the Jump of the Water.

Severity of the environment

Tour without any technical difficulty. At the end of the route and as an extension of it, for the more adventurous, a handcrafted staircase made with wooden trunks helps to save the wall that represents a huge rock that blocks the passage originating the Jump of the Water. This extension is out of the route that ends in this place and although to cross this obstacle, thanks to the staircase, it does not have a great difficulty if it is necessary to consider the vertical difference that saves (3 or 4 m) and the precariousness of the same one, not being fixed to any place, in addition the humidity of the place can make that we are with the somewhat slippery rock, propitiating these factors that the descent becomes complicated for someone inexperienced.

Orientation

The route is perfectly signposted, equipped with walkways for the points where the path must cross the stream and with some door to prevent the passage of livestock.

Important places to pass through

Coordenadas UTM Datum WGS84

Profile of the route

Cartography, maps and tracks

This sketch of the route is not made to scale nor does it contain all the information relating to the area, it is merely indicative.

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This schematic with the path is approximate and has been created from the derived cartographic base © Instituto Geográfico Nacional  "Cuadrante 241-1 1:25.000". 

Senditur has manipulated the tracks to correct the aberrant points that may exist, caused by problems with the reception of the GPS signal. In any case the tracks are always approximate.

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