Malaga will have the largest river park in Spain
Mlaga aims to convert a third of the riverbed of its longest and most abundant river into the largest river park in Spain. It is the proposal launched by its provincial council, which aims to promote in the next five years what they have called the Guadalhorce Green Corridor.
The action will affect a total area of 4,500,000 square meters and connect the Malaga coast with the King’s Road, turning the path into a natural union between the Mediterranean Sea and the route inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII in 1921, which at that time received the nickname of “world’s most dangerous trail”. Although the value of that space after years of waiting, yielded to the province of Mlaga a empujn definitive on what to internal tourism refers to (little tena demonstrate the Costa del Sol in terms of benefits to the tourism in the keys of sun and beach), the institution of the provincial malaguea bet now a new landmark, in the form of ambitious environmental project and development of the municipalities limtrofes.
The Diputacin malaguea will promote in the current legislature a project to which to dedicate around EUR 200 million in at least the next five years, to achieve the objectives set by an intervention that aims to link the arrival of up to 40 million, in charge of the Next Generation European funds. To them, it aspires to add the resources that, for that purpose, provide administrations such as the central, the autonmica and the municipalities themselves involved in the proposal. This same year, it is expected that the first actions will begin, for which projects for the improvement of transit between municipalities through river resources, valued at about three million euros, are already in writing. Face to 2022, and with the firm intention of not giving truce to time, the Diputacin de Mlaga reserves an amount that, together with the aforementioned item, raise to 20 million euros reserved for actions associated with the Great Path of Mlaga and natural areas of the interior.
Gaitanes Gorge
The bet is not without ambition, but rather quite the opposite: it is a question of setting through a natural way of 54 kilometers long on the banks of the Guadalhorce, the main attraction of the interior values the province of Mlaga, with the mouth of its most powerful torrent. A green path, from the point where the jewel that is the Gaitanes Gorge is located to the coast, already in the heart of the capital costasolea, where natural spaces and new values of a destination that has known how to continue adding pieces to diversify supply and grow at a rate that only the pandemic could temporarily stop.
Not in vain, it is that point of the Andalusian coast to reach the new green corridor, where the europe’s largest wooden pedestrian walkway. A structure of 270 meters in length, inaugurated at the end of 2020, and that crosses in parallel to the imaginary line of the Mediterranean coast, linking as the two sides of the mighty ro malagueo in which to be the southern end of the new corridor. This wooden bridge is one more element of those incorporated into the so-called “Coastal path”, project that makes it possible to walk through the 180 kilometers of Malaga coast, of which a total of 120 has already been connected.
Right, south. On the north side, already in the interior of the province, the aforementioned natural space where once a risky shortcut of three kilometers in length and barely a meter wide was attached, from the municipal term of Arboretum to the jet (lora). There, hanging on the vertical walls of the gorge and 100 meters above the ro, is the path that built from 1901 the Hydroelctrica Society of Chorro, – owner of the Salto del Gaitanejo and Salto del Chorro -, as an access solution between both spaces, to facilitate the transport of materials and the passage of workers ,just a century ago. In fact, this same week-the next day 21-is celebrated a century since King Alfonso XIII inaugurated this place. Naca as, the Caminito del Rey.
A route not without risk, located in one of the most important climbing areas in Europe, which had to be closed at the end of the year 2000, because of various imprudences that cost the lives of four hikers. It was in 2014, when the Provincial Council of Mlaga began the works of complete restoration of the Caminito. It will be opened to the public in 2015, giving back to the inhabitants of the region a part of its history. A milestone for the province of Mlaga, by endowing the zonade a revitalizing element of tourism and a focus of attraction for visitors, as shown in the figures reached: until the health crisis that started in 2020, the province of Mlaga has joined three years consecutive beyond the barrier of the million of visitors of interior, dotndolo of a key role for the development of the five municipalities involved (Ardales, lora, Antequera Campillos and Valley of Abdalajs).
Now, the objective of the Diputacin is to add the Caminito del Rey to the list of Unesco World Heritage, which is already the Site of the Dlmenes of Antequera, also in the interior of the province of Malaga. An initiative that has already achieved around 20,000 accessions between individuals and companies, since its launch in May 2019.
Nearby train
The Gualhorce green corridor does not only allow the environmental and landscape recovery of the banks of the river, or the creation of half a dozen large areas for citizen recreation, but aims to condition trails and river walks that sum some 140 kilometers of layout. At the same time, provide the route with three new visitor reception centres and interpretation of nature, and enhance the figure of the current train nearby, with the creation of new stops that improve accessibility as, for example, in the central area of the Valley, at the confluence of the Guadalhorce and the Ro Grande.
Once one of the main environmental projects in southern Spain is completed, it will be possible to on foot, by bike, and even on horseback the 54 kilometers that the route comprises. The new green area of the Andalusian coast comprises an extension four times greater than the Turia park, in Valencia. They are added to existing initiatives such as the aforementioned coastal Path, or the Gran Senda de Mlaga initiative, which already connects the interior and coast of the province of Mlaga through a path with a route of 656 kilometers, divided into 35 documented, signalized and approved stages.
The “green revolution” continues its course in the province of Mlaga, in the form of an ambitious project that aspires to last as a new opportunity for the sustainable development of the south of the region.
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