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What to see and do in Jurisdicción de San Zadornil

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

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How far each place is from the centre of Jurisdicción de San Zadornil

Peña Carrias 2.6 km

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What to see and do in Jurisdicción de San Zadornil

Jurisdicción de San Zadornil
Village
Jurisdicción de San Zadornil is a municipality of the Las Merindades comarca, in the province of Burgos, with its seat at San Zadornil, accompanied by the settlements of Arroyo, San Millán and Villafría. It was a former royal jurisdiction of the district of Castilla la Vieja in Laredo, and today lies within the Montes Obarenes-San Zadornil natural park, which protects dense forests of beech, oak and pine around the karst massif of Peña Carrias, 1,135 metres high. It has 62 inhabitants.
Peña Carrias
Nature
Peña Carrias is a karst massif that rises to 1,130 metres on the boundary between Valdegovía, in Álava, and the Jurisdicción de San Zadornil, in Burgos, between two natural parks: Valderejo, on the Basque side, and Montes Obarenes-San Zadornil, on the Castilian side, with dense forests of beech, oak and pine. It is a long, narrow limestone wall, a remnant of the old cover of the Lahoz anticline, forming ridges more than a kilometre long and up to two hundred metres of vertical drop, whose jagged crest makes reaching the summit very dangerous; its verticality gives it a distinctive look and a demanding climb, with routes from Bóveda, Tobillas and, above all, from Arroyo de San Zadornil. In 2014 Peña Carrias was fixed as the sole official place name, ruling out a Basque origin.