{"id":64106,"date":"2026-03-22T21:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=64106"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:23:43","slug":"an-exploration-of-the-impressive-granada-geopark-and-a-bivouac-in-one-of-its-cave-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/22\/an-exploration-of-the-impressive-granada-geopark-and-a-bivouac-in-one-of-its-cave-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"An exploration of the impressive Granada Geopark and a bivouac in one of its cave houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andalusia is a Spanish region with very beautiful and varied landscapes, many of which are truly spectacular.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/22\/the-clay-landscapes-and-caves-of-benalua-and-the-hermitage-of-st-torcuato-of-face-retama\/\">The clay landscapes and caves of Benal\u00faa and the Hermitage of St. Torcuato of Face Retama<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/15\/a-bivouac-in-entresierras-a-spectacular-mountainous-area-in-eastern-andalusia\/\">A bivouac in Entresierras, a spectacular mountainous area in Eastern Andalusia<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Among these landscapes are those of the <strong>Granada Geopark<\/strong>, a mountainous area that is remarkable not only for its scenery but also for harboring <strong>one of the best continental geological records of the last 5 million years<\/strong>, as noted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geoparquedegranada.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its official website<\/a>, which adds: <em>\"Among other treasures, this record contains <strong>the most complete set of fossil remains of the large, now-extinct mammals that lived during the Quaternary Period<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Granada Geopark covers <strong>an area of \u200b\u200b4,722 square kilometers<\/strong>, including 47 municipalities in the districts of Guadix, Baza, Hu\u00e9scar, and Montes, in the province of Granada. <strong>UNESCO recognized this area as a Global Geopark on July 10, 2020.<\/strong> As always, the best way to experience it from the comfort of your home is through one of the excellent videos from the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (which I highly recommend you subscribe to). This video shows <strong>an exploration of the area and a bivouac in one of its cave houses, specifically in Face Retama, in the municipality of Benal\u00faa<\/strong>. Aventuras Entresierras already showcased this location a month ago in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/22\/los-arcillosos-paisajes-y-cuevas-de-benalua-y-la-ermita-de-san-torcuato-de-face-retama\/\">another excellent video<\/a> (the video is in Spanish; you can activate automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the video). player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Una noche en una cueva del desierto | Vivac entre badlands\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/obaQ_cgFm8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a preview, you can see some screenshots from this video<\/strong>, starting with the intrepid Alfred, the most renowned explorer of all those who usually appear on this blog. Besides the landscapes, <strong>this video also shows a tasting of a Polish Army military ration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55162290831_f506c3c537_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55162290831_999f148d40_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55162670420_7e8bfd9af2_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55162670420_0416ff87d4_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55162540994_df27a4c1ce_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55162540994_88c76de780_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55161397927_49d6056a7a_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55161397927_030290988e_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andalusia is a Spanish region with very beautiful and varied landscapes, many of which are truly spectacular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16882],"tags":[16673,26310,26312,1025,26512,11462],"class_list":["post-64106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-forests-and-mountains","tag-andalusia","tag-benalua","tag-face-retama","tag-granada","tag-granada-geopark","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:25:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}