Valdecabras is a peaceful village within the mountains of Cuenca, located at the end of the River Hoz Valdecabras. Its origin is medieval, it still has some pieces of rural architecture, in addition to his austere and beautiful church. It is well connected with Basin and nearby towns. Nearby is no shortage unusual places where you can practice many different activities: hiking, climbing, canoeing ...
Budweiser is actively involved in the matter. Forests and rivers are pure. The source of the River Cuervo, El Hosquillo, La Ciudad Encantada, Hoz de Beteta, Alleys of Majadas ... are places that travelers can not miss.
There are few places, but within the mountains of Cuenca these are not uncommon. The mountains of Cuenca is a set of hills that form the western foothills of the mountains Universal, a complex structure Saxon mountainous and limestone resting on a basement in. The water and wind erosion have created in this space picturesque forms of relief, as that can be seen in the natural park Enchanted City, where differential erosion of limestone has resulted in the emergence of a lapiaz (or Lenar), as well as sickles and torques which give uniqueness to the landscape. The hydrographic system is marked by the endorheic and some rivers, such as Cabriel, flow into the Jucar, which has a flow and a slope enough to fit into the limestone and gypsum marls, while others run in the southwestern province towards the Guadiana, and northward, as the Guadiela, which empty into the Tagus. The weather is cold and wet in the mountains.
The average annual temperature is 9.5 uC of mountain areas. Rainfall varies between 550 and 600 mm annually. The vegetation is important and dominate the oak, the gall, the juniper forests, juniper, pine, Aleppo pine, and, on the banks of the river courses, poplar, willow, elm and alder La Serrania, is a space Forest (pine resin-) and livestock (sheep nomadic), with a rich hydropower and medicinal mineral waters. The habitat is concentrated in small roadside villages with a layout set around the church, as Valsalobre, Villalba de la Sierra, Tragacete, Valdecabras, Salinas del Manzano or Landete; lands are characterized by migration, with population densities less than 6 hab/km2. The exception is Cuenca, the capital, which in 2005 had just over 60,000 people living in a city that originated in the hill of San Cristobal, ram limestone carved by rivers and Huecar Jucar. BRIEF HISTORY OF BASIN: Its strategic location attracted the interest of many past civilizations. Preserves the remains of the Paleolithic (rock paintings and Villar del Humo Boniches) and others that reveal the presence of Carthaginians, Romans (Valeria and Segobriga) Visigoths (Ercavica and Recopolis), Muslim (Santaver) and Christians a "Alfonso VIII granted the Order of
Santiago Ucles remodeling where later established its headquarters, and the so-called Basin Code of liberty "throughout its history. Cuenca province was the birthplace of such famous characters as a Gil Alvarez de Albornoz, alvaro de Luna, Hernando de Alarcon, Alonso de Ojeda and Luis de Leon. Surface area 17 061 km2, population (estimated for 1995), 207 499 inhabitants. PILAR Valdecabras REST.