Piedra Escurridera

In an idyllic setting in the town of monuments Baños de la Encina, the Piedra Escurridera is nothing other than a huge lump of granite used as a slide by dozens of generations of children.

300 million years ago, through a fissure in the slate subsoil, melted material arose from a chamber of magma. The melted material cooled slowly under the topographic surface, and the component minerals of granite crystallised. As the slate covering the stone became eroded, the granite body was revealed and was left open to atmospheric conditions. Today, we can appreciate how red scree and stones appear in a sea of slate, like this Piedra Escurridera, a natural feature with excellent ethnographic shades that lend shape to a wild and extremely beautiful landscape that continues in the neighbouring "Piedra Bermeja".

Nearby and making the most of the geological qualities of the granite, we find the Pocico Ciego, a well that makes the most of the junction between the uneven folds of slate and the stone to fill its springs with water.