Fuente Dé

Camaleño municipality: Fuente Dé
Aerial view of Fuente Dé
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Cantabria
Comarca :	Liébana
Coordinates	43 ° 9 ′  N , 4 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 9 ′  N , 4 ° 49 ′  W
Height :	1100  msnm
Residents :	9 (2018) INE
Postal code :	39588
Area code:	39015003200

Fuente Dé is a district of the Spanish municipality of Camaleño in the autonomous community of Cantabria . The place is part of the Picos de Europa National Park , it is located at an altitude of around 1100 m in a valley basin open to the south , which is semi-circularly surrounded by rock walls up to 300 m high. The special location makes it interesting for both tourists and geomorphologists . The Spanish word "Fuente" means "source", the river Río Deva has its source in Fuente Dé .

Cable car

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Cable car from the high valley to the lookout point

An important attraction of Fuente Dé is the cable car of the same name, which leads to the mountain station “El Cable” at an altitude of 1823 m. The route length is 1840 m. From the mountain station, the visitor has an impressive view of the mountains of the Picos de Europa .

Tourism and activities

Parador of Fuente Dé

In Fuente Dé there is a hotel of the Spanish Parador chain, it is built in the style of modern mountain hotels with a facade made of wood, glass and carved natural stone. Numerous hiking trails start in Fuente Dé and at the mountain station of the cable car. Possibilities are the ascent to the Alto de la Triguera (1916 m), the circumnavigation of the Peña Remoña mountain, the Camino de Áliva or an excursion to the mountain village Mogrovejo.

In 2012 Fuente Dé was the destination of the 17th stage of the Vuelta a España cycling tour . The climb was in the second category in the mountain classification. The winner of the stage was the Spaniard Alberto Contador .

Caving

In the limestone mountains of the Picos de Europa are about 300 caves that have proliferated in recent years studied scientifically. The largest caves are “La Oliseda” (806 m depth), “La Horcadina” (803 m), “Los Mandriles” (200 m) and “El Sumidero” (170 m). In 2002 and 2003 two more caves were discovered, the "Sima de la Cornisa" with 803 m and the "Torca Magali" with 400 m. The speleologists have now discovered that the origin of the cave "Torca Magali" begins under the cave "Sima de la Cornisa", so that both together form a depth of 1507 m. The combination of the two caves is the second longest cave in Spain. The entrance to the cave is only 2 km from the mountain station of the cable car.

Web links

Commons : Fuente Dé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fuente Dé cable car . In: outdooractive . Retrieved September 12, 2019.
2. ↑ Fuente Dé. With the cable car to the Picos de Europa . In: Travel to Spain . Retrieved September 12, 2019.
3. ↑ El Himalaya de la espeleología ( es ) In: El Diario de Léon . August 28, 2018. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
4. ↑ Ficha de cavidad: Sima de la Cornisa-Torca Magalí ( es , PDF) In: fedespeleocyl.com . Retrieved September 12, 2019.