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Given the success of previous calls for the Department of Tourism of the Municipality of Torre-Pacheco again organized for the sixth consecutive year, the pilgrimage to the Sima de las Palomas on Sunday 25 April.
This activity aims to inform attendees one of the greatest natural assets of the municipality, the head Gordo as a natural area and tourism, having organized several activities to promote leisure and recreation in a natural and unique as the mountain Campo de Cartagena, as is a visit to the abyss of the birds, clean up activities ...
Last Sunday was held at the Gordo Cabezo the traditional pilgrimage to the Sima de las Palomas.
Hundreds of people got to know one of the greatest natural assets of the municipality, the head.
As a starting point of this pilgrimage was established hamlet Civic Center to Dolores de Pacheco pachequera where attendees left foot, on horseback or in carriages to the Cabezo Gordo, where guests enjoyed a day of living in our beloved natural area.
The Treasures of Cabezo Gordo
The Cabezo Gordo has a diversity of environments that make it a privileged enclaves and a haven where one can find hundreds of species, both flora and fauna.
But if we get into the bowels of the mountain we discover the aquifer andaluciense, which are taken from irrigation waters with temperatures ranging around 30 and 51 º C, or the cave of the lake on the south side, which serves as a refuge summer to a large colony of cave bats and bigeye.
Gallery holdings in iron ore, exploited more intensively at the beginning of S.
XX, have created countless caves, but have also uncovered other natural source, such as the Sima de las Palomas.
This pit contains within its walls the second spot with most important paleontological Peninsula after Atapuerca.
It is a Sedimentary tower 18 meters high, which contains the remains of hominids and animals that inhabited this area of Torre Pacheco made between 50,000 and 135,000 years.
According to Prof. Dr. M.
Walker, the excavation director and anthropologist "scientific study is the continuation of the path started in Atapuerca hominid, ending 200,000 years ago."
Location
The Cabezo Gordo is situated in the municipality of Torre Pacheco, between the hamlets of Balsicas, Northwest, San Cayetano, the Northeast and Dolores de Pacheco, the South East.
If we come from the southern sector of the Campo de Cartagena San Javier should reach in order to move towards Dolores de Pacheco and from there will access to service roads to the vicinity of Mt.
If our source is Murcia, the highway will come from the Mar Menor, which we leave for the exit Dolores de Pacheco tells us it is not necessary to reach this population as the Cabezo Gordo is right.
We can also take the exit that leads to Los Alcazares, and in this case the Gordo Cabezo we have left.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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