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What to see and do in Junta de Villalba de Losa

What to see and do in Junta de Villalba de Losa (Las Merindades, Burgos): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Activities

How far each place is from the centre of Junta de Villalba de Losa

Viewpoint of el Monumento Natural de Monte Santiago 8.6 km

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What to see and do in Junta de Villalba de Losa

Junta de Villalba de Losa
Village
Junta de Villalba de Losa is a municipality of the Las Merindades comarca, in the province of Burgos, made up of five settlements and watered by the río Húmedo south of the Sierra Salvada, next to the Monte Santiago Natural Monument. It was one of the seven juntas of the old Merindad de Losa, and the only one subject, under the Ancien Régime, to a secular seigneury, that of the Duke of Frías, who appointed its pedáneo councillors; it then grouped, besides the town of Villalba, eight other places, four of which split off in 1981 to join the Valle de Losa. Tradition holds it to be the birthplace of Juan de Garay, founder of the Argentine city of Santa Fe, with which it is today twinned. It has 79 inhabitants, against the 549 it reached in 1843.
Viewpoint of el Monumento Natural de Monte Santiago
Activity
The Monte Santiago natural monument stretches across the eastern end of the Sierra Salvada, on the boundary between Burgos, Álava and the enclave of Orduña. At around 900 metres of altitude it combines a beech forest with broad heathland, and its ravines shelter populations of vultures and birds of prey. Here the Nervión river rises, fed by underground waters that run beneath a karst landscape with sinkholes, forming the Salto del Nervión, a waterfall of more than 200 metres that already falls into the Délica valley, in Orduña. The beech forest reaches the edge of the municipality, and its paths lead to the viewpoint over this fall, the highest on the peninsula. On the summit of Charlazo stands a statue of the Virgin of Orduña, and on the Fraideburu crag the remains of an old wolf trap survive.