Tabayón de Mongayo Route
- Case Asturias Centre
- Distance: 11,7 kms
- Difficulty: Short
- Code: PR60
- Altitude: 1.230 m.
- Unevenness: 663 m.
- On foot: 3 h. 45 min.
- Start point: Tarna
- Tour type: Circular
- Layout of the route: Download kml
Circular route from the village of Tarna passing by the Mongayo waterfall, in the Redes Natural Park.
Info
The route starts in the village of Tarna, which is accessed by the AS-17 road (Avilés-Puerto de Tarna), just before starting the ascent to the pass. From the village itself we take a path that leads off to the right, with a concrete surface in some sections, and we start to climb up between stone walls, until we reach a beautiful beech forest.
Route
Tarna - Tarna 11
A little further on, we come to a sharp bend to the left, and we are at the crossroads of Terreros, where there is a crossroads. At this point the path divides, the one on the left leads to the Rebollos de Llanu'l Toru and the one on the right to the Mongayo waterfall.
Taking the left fork, the path continues with a good route to a small clearing, cross it and head towards the highest part of the path. Later on, a narrow path leads us into the forest and we reach the Llanu'l Toru, a kind of hill in the middle of the beech forest. From here we must return along the same path to the crossroads of Terreros, where we now take the path on the left that takes us to Monte Saperu. Later on, we cross the Requexada stream over a beautiful wooden bridge, and we will walk with the effect of the shadows of the forest and without great unevenness.
A little further on, the track ends at the Arellales fountain, and the route continues along the slope until it reaches a clearing in the forest where you can see the peaks of Cuitu Negru and Cantu'l Osu. Shortly after, the esplanade of La Campona comes into view, from where you soon reach the Mongayo waterfall. The waterfall, although of little flow, is of singular beauty, due to the height of the waterfall and the majesty of the beech forest. Crossing the sheepfold and losing a little height, we approach the Mongallu River, which we cross wherever we can.
We return to La Campona, where we take a path that will allow us to close the circuit, instead of returning along the same route, taking a signposted path that is less obvious in its first few metres than the one we had taken up to here, which goes under the meadows of the sheepfold and enters the valley of the Mongallu River, under the slopes of Cuitu Negru.It soon becomes a wide path that crosses the forest in search of the bottom of the Ablanosa valley, and here, in the middle of a small clearing in the middle of the forest - the Rebollau sheepfold - the path turns sharply to the left and it is then that we can contemplate Cantu'l Osu.
We cross the river Nalón over a good bridge, and the path climbs a few metres and comes out onto the road to El Puerto (Puerto de Tarna), but just 20 metres further on a path descends slightly to the right, between the river and the road. This path, between farms, takes us to the village of Tarna, coming out just at the entrance to the village, at the point where we had started the route a few hours earlier.