El Chorro

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El Chorro - view from the plane Wąwóz Desfiladero de los Gaitanes

El Chorro is a village in southern Spain in the Andalusian province of Malaga, at the mouth of the limestone gorge Desfiladero de los Gaitanes. At the bottom of the gorge is the Guadalhorce River. Due to the richness of the surrounding rocks, this place is often visited by climbers and tourists. It has a campsite, a hotel, a tourist hostel, several houses, a railway station and a hydroelectric power station. History

In 1921, a gorge was built above the ravine, creating three reservoirs. At the same time a railway system was built along one of the ravine walls, and, for auxiliary purposes, the water tunnel system was used, and the path of the ravine was led by a concrete platform called Caminito del Rey , in honor of King Alfonso XIII who oversaw the work and made a solemn opening of the path. Climbing

In the highest parts of the ravine its walls reach 700 m high. At the top of the ravine, the distance between its walls (each over 100 m high) measured at half the height of the gorge is several meters high, making it one of the steepest rock gorges in Europe.

The area around the gorge is one of the most famous climbing regions in Europe - within a few kilometers of El Chorro there are over 1500 insured climbing paths in full difficulty.

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