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\"Ruta<\/a> A legend is told that one day there was a big storm in the middle of the sea just when all the men from Las Negras were fishing. According to the story, almost all hands where lost living a village of widows. People who visited Las Negras could only find women dressed in black (negro in Spanish), and that\u2019s why it is named Las Negras.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is one of the privilege sites of the Nature Reserve as it is protected from the strong winds of the West. We depart to La Isleta and visit El Cuervo\u2019s and Las Palomas\u2019 caves, where we can see how the palid swifts fly around their nests built inside. On top, there is La Molata\u2019s path, one of the most beautiful of the Reserve. In these cliffs, you can track the disintegration of the rock, a photograph from a geological movie. Then we see the XVIII century San Ramon\u2019s castle, built, like most of the coastal watchtowers, to protect the coast from the pirates that controlled the waters.<\/div>\n
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\"Ruta<\/a><\/div>\n
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Then we arrive to El Playazo, where the Rodalquilar valley meets the sea. The valley is an ancient volcanic caldera and from its mountain range was extracted the gold that made this place shine and placed it on the map as an important strategic location of the time.
\nThe gold ran out and time\u00a0 transformed the clean, desert montain range, touching the crystal-clear waters into gold itself; one that didn\u2019t need explosions.
\nAfter El Playazo, the landscape changes again and the dark textured rock reappears, sometimes crystalline and sometimes amorphous and in places whitish coloured. And we find ourselves again under the shadow of more than 200 metres of steep cliffs on which we can see deep crevices where the hydrothermal waters ran and geological gargoyles were shaped by the wind. At the end of the trip, we see La Polacra, eroded by the sea into the form of an anvil.<\/div>\n
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Otra versi\u00f3n<\/h3>\n

Juli\u00e1n, colaborador del Eco del Parque<\/a>, nos puntuliza esta historia “seg\u00fan me han contando gente muy mayor de la zona, eso pas\u00f3 en La Cala de San Pedro. All\u00ed hab\u00eda m\u00e1s gente viviendo que en Las Negras. Los dos enclaves eran de pescadores pero en Las Negras no hab\u00eda casi nadie. En San Pedro viv\u00edan m\u00e1s familias de la pesca y de lo que cultivaban en los peque\u00f1os huertos que all\u00ed hab\u00eda, regados por su manantial de agua dulce que todav\u00eda hoy subsiste. Cuando se produjo el desastre de los naufragios las viudas de los pescadores se trasladaron a Las Negras. Todas iban de negro y pa\u00f1uelos negros. La gente que pasaba en barco, y los pocos que iban all\u00ed desde el interior, ve\u00edan mujeres de negro y empezaron a llamar al lugar la zona de “Las Negras”, por esas viudas que all\u00ed se ve\u00edan vestidas de esa manera”<\/em><\/p>\n

Aunque no hemos encontrado registro escrito, la historia de Juli\u00e1n parece mas veraz ya que en San Pedro tenemos uno de los puntos de agua dulce que facilitar\u00eda el asentamiento de la poblaci\u00f3n. Aprovecho para recomendar la asociaci\u00f3n el Eco del Parque<\/a> que desde hace muchos a\u00f1os realiza una divulgaci\u00f3n y defensa de los valores del Parque, recomiendo echarle un vistazo a su revista. Gracias Julian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A legend is told that one day there was a big storm in the middle of the sea just when all the men from Las Negras were fishing. According to the story, almost all hands where lost living a village of widows. People who visited Las Negras could only find women dressed in black (negro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

\r\n\r\n\"Ruta<\/a> A legend is told that one day there was a big storm in the middle of the sea just when all the men from Las Negras were fishing. According to the story, almost all hands where lost living a village of widows. People who visited Las Negras could only find women dressed in black (negro in Spanish), and that\u2019s why it is named Las Negras.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\"Ruta<\/a><\/div>\r\n
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It is one of the privilege sites of the Nature Reserve as it is protected from the strong winds of the West. We depart to La Isleta and visit El Cuervo\u2019s and Las Palomas\u2019 caves, where we can see how the palid swifts fly around their nests built inside. On top, there is La Molata\u2019s path, one of the most beautiful of the Reserve. In these cliffs, you can track the disintegration of the rock, a photograph from a geological movie. Then we see the XVIII century San Ramon\u2019s castle, built, like most of the coastal watchtowers, to protect the coast from the pirates that controlled the waters.<\/div>\r\n
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\"Ruta<\/a><\/div>\r\n
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Then we arrive to El Playazo, where the Rodalquilar valley meets the sea. The valley is an ancient volcanic caldera and from its mountain range was extracted the gold that made this place shine and placed it on the map as an important strategic location of the time.\r\nThe gold ran out and time\u00a0 transformed the clean, desert montain range, touching the crystal-clear waters into gold itself; one that didn\u2019t need explosions.\r\nAfter El Playazo, the landscape changes again and the dark textured rock reappears, sometimes crystalline and sometimes amorphous and in places whitish coloured. And we find ourselves again under the shadow of more than 200 metres of steep cliffs on which we can see deep crevices where the hydrothermal waters ran and geological gargoyles were shaped by the wind. At the end of the trip, we see La Polacra, eroded by the sea into the form of an anvil.<\/div>\r\n
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Otra versi\u00f3n<\/h3>\r\nJuli\u00e1n, colaborador del Eco del Parque<\/a>, nos puntuliza esta historia \"seg\u00fan me han contando gente muy mayor de la zona, eso pas\u00f3 en La Cala de San Pedro. All\u00ed hab\u00eda m\u00e1s gente viviendo que en Las Negras. Los dos enclaves eran de pescadores pero en Las Negras no hab\u00eda casi nadie. En San Pedro viv\u00edan m\u00e1s familias de la pesca y de lo que cultivaban en los peque\u00f1os huertos que all\u00ed hab\u00eda, regados por su manantial de agua dulce que todav\u00eda hoy subsiste. Cuando se produjo el desastre de los naufragios las viudas de los pescadores se trasladaron a Las Negras. Todas iban de negro y pa\u00f1uelos negros. La gente que pasaba en barco, y los pocos que iban all\u00ed desde el interior, ve\u00edan mujeres de negro y empezaron a llamar al lugar la zona de \"Las Negras\", por esas viudas que all\u00ed se ve\u00edan vestidas de esa manera\"<\/em>\r\n\r\nAunque no hemos encontrado registro escrito, la historia de Juli\u00e1n parece mas veraz ya que en San Pedro tenemos uno de los puntos de agua dulce que facilitar\u00eda el asentamiento de la poblaci\u00f3n. Aprovecho para recomendar la asociaci\u00f3n el Eco del Parque<\/a> que desde hace muchos a\u00f1os realiza una divulgaci\u00f3n y defensa de los valores del Parque, recomiendo echarle un vistazo a su revista. 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We depart to La Isleta and visit El Cuervo\u2019s and Las Palomas\u2019 caves, where we can see how the palid swifts fly around their nests built inside. On top, there is La Molata\u2019s path, one of the most beautiful of the Reserve. In these cliffs, you can track the disintegration of the rock, a photograph from a geological movie. Then we see the XVIII century San Ramon\u2019s castle, built, like most of the coastal watchtowers, to protect the coast from the pirates that controlled the waters. Then we arrive to El Playazo, where the Rodalquilar valley meets the sea. The valley is an ancient volcanic caldera and from its mountain range was extracted the gold that made this place shine and placed it on the map as an important strategic location of the time.The gold ran out and time\u00a0 transformed the clean, desert montain range, touching the crystal-clear waters into gold itself; one that didn\u2019t need explosions.After El Playazo, the landscape changes again and the dark textured rock reappears, sometimes crystalline and sometimes amorphous and in places whitish coloured. And we find ourselves again under the shadow of more than 200 metres of steep cliffs on which we can see deep crevices where the hydrothermal waters ran and geological gargoyles were shaped by the wind. At the end of the trip, we see La Polacra, eroded by the sea into the form of an anvil.","og_url":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/","og_site_name":"Paseos en barco en Cabo de Gata","article_published_time":"2017-06-27T10:04:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-03T17:48:06+00:00","og_image":[{"width":639,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ruta-de-las-negras-y-los-volcanes-.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Carlos","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Carlos","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/"},"author":{"name":"Carlos","@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/#\/schema\/person\/6c88852cf329daac81579e6a46a49ce5"},"headline":"LAS NEGRAS AND VOLCANOES\u2019 ITINERARY (Las Negras \u2013 La Polacra)","datePublished":"2017-06-27T10:04:37+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-03T17:48:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/"},"wordCount":608,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ruta-de-las-negras-y-los-volcanes-.jpg","articleSection":["Itineries","Rutas"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/","url":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/","name":"- Paseos en barco en Cabo de Gata","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/en\/las-negras-and-volcanoes-itinerary-las-negras-la-polacra\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/elcaboafondo.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ruta-de-las-negras-y-los-volcanes-.jpg","datePublished":"2017-06-27T10:04:37+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-03T17:48:06+00:00","description":"A legend is told that one day there was a big storm in the middle of the sea just when all the men from Las Negras were fishing. According to the story, almost all hands where lost living a village of widows. People who visited Las Negras could only find women dressed in black (negro in Spanish), and that\u2019s why it is named Las Negras. It is one of the privilege sites of the Nature Reserve as it is protected from the strong winds of the West. We depart to La Isleta and visit El Cuervo\u2019s and Las Palomas\u2019 caves, where we can see how the palid swifts fly around their nests built inside. On top, there is La Molata\u2019s path, one of the most beautiful of the Reserve. In these cliffs, you can track the disintegration of the rock, a photograph from a geological movie. Then we see the XVIII century San Ramon\u2019s castle, built, like most of the coastal watchtowers, to protect the coast from the pirates that controlled the waters. Then we arrive to El Playazo, where the Rodalquilar valley meets the sea. 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