The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today 'The Way of Water ", an ecotourism route over 80 kilometers to enjoy people of all ages Espuña Regional Park.
This active tourism infrastructure has made in the last decade an investment of 1.2 million from the regional administration for the adaptation and signaling pathways.
The Path, now adds value and is reflected in the publication, covers the five municipalities grouped in the Commonwealth Tourism Espuña (Aledo, Alhama, Mula, Pliego and Totana), through the Canal Road Taibilla across viaducts and other water infrastructure and water taking center stage.
Also, also uses parallel paths and roads to the Tajo-Segura and Espuna pipes and Treebeard.
During the presentation, which was also attended by the Mayor of Totana, Isabel Maria Sanchez and Conejal Culture, Alfonso Cayuela, the Minister of Culture stressed that "the path shown as the naturalness of artifice, through the pipes paving the way water as ditches, ponds or viaducts, merges with its natural sound experience, textures and smells to be lived and experienced from within. "
Cruz stressed that the book contains the substance of the route, which "is water, which in the region is a culture born of the deficit, the wish of this good and all that has been generated around finish blending with the landscape" .
This itinerary ecotourism is divided into four sections or stages of a day, from Totana to new homes for walking or cycling.
The degree of difficulty is low, except for a stretch of medium difficulty, so they are conducive for families to enjoy the wide variety of environmental, landscape and rich cultural and monumental treasure the five boroughs.
The stages are: Totana to Espuna Road, 15.7 kilometers, of Espuna Road to El Berro, 12.4, of El Berro to Source of the Portuguese, 12.1, and Fountain the Portuguese to new homes 13.3.
It also has branches Path as Totana, Aledo Alhama, to add approximately 88 kilometers form the itinerary.
The book assumes the tool to launch this active tourism infrastructure, "an element of knowledge and communication strategy," said Minister of Culture and Tourism.
Particularly noteworthy are road-books and detailed explanation thereof, in which the emphasis is on certain points of interest that the visitor finds.
Besides the historical introduction on Taibilla Canal and the Espuña Regional Park (with an overview of natural species it houses, with 42 percent presence of wildlife in the region and 195 vertebrates), we also find data of interest on the route linking populations and a summary of suggestions of what not to miss and restaurant recommendations.
The book has been edited by Channels Taibilla Natursport Ecoespuña and with the collaboration of the Autonomous Community and the Commonwealth Tourism Espuña.
Already on sale in bookstores in the region and active tourist shops.
Offer hiking in the region
The Region of Murcia, by their geographical location and climate, has a rich natural biodiversity.
It is a perfect destination for hiking, for his landscapes, protected areas, mixture of landscape and mild climate.
It also has thirty trails short haul, long haul a dozen, the GR7, which runs from the Murcia region of northern Europe and Northwest Greenway.
Also noteworthy is the momentum that is taking the road of Vera Cruz and the enhancement of the Water Trail as a whole.
According to the Institute of Tourism Studies, the profile of visitors taking trails in the region are people between 18 and 34 years, education level and income.
Usually travel in groups or with a partner and their main motivation is physical activity in contact with nature.
Its rooms are not very long, between two and three days, but usually plan trips more frequently (an average of five trips per year).
The Espuña Regional Park and its surroundings obtained in February the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism (CETS), a quality certificate issued by the European Federation of National Parks (Europarc) that aims to harmonize tourism development and heritage preservation natural and cultural protected area sustainability criteria in tourism-related activities.
