The Tagus and the Hoz Seca

The Tagus meets the Hoz Seca River

Las Juntas del Tajo with the Hoz Seca is one of the most beautiful and best preserved places in the entire Upper Tagus Natural Park. This is where the mighty Hoz Seca, after having travelled 32 kilometres, pours its cold and pure waters into the still meagre Tagus, known by the locals as Tajillo. It is also said that there is a proverb which goes "The Tagus carries the fame and the Hoz Seca carries the water"This corroborates what we say.

It is a beautiful place surrounded by ravines, framed between the municipal districts of Czech, Peralejos de las Truchas y Masegosawhere we can enjoy a great variety of flora and fauna that has hardly been altered by humans.

To get here we will pass through a wide variety of landscapes, we will pass from the parameras sun-baked highlands, to enter a descent through a dense, dense mixed forest until they reach the banks of the river where the riverside vegetation is exuberant.

Once we reached the river, we discovered the construction of a former hydroelectric power plantThis is one of the only modifications in which man has intervened. On the opposite side of the river from the one we are descending, going upstream, we discover that there is a path that joins us by the diversion channel with the former blacksmith's shop of the Morencosand invites us to discover another section of the Hoz Seca riverbed, one of the purest, cleanest and most solitary.

<< How to get there?

To get to this hidden place, we will leave from Peralejos de las Truchas along the road that leads to the area to visit the Cascada del Molino waterfall, but instead of heading here, we will take the detour that goes past the entrance to the clean point in the direction of the poplar grove and hermitage of RibagordaOnce here, the only thing left to do is to continue on to a small hill where there are the remains of some old cattle corrals.

Once here, bear in mind that the road that descends to the dam and the joints is not suitable for all types of vehicles, so we recommend that if you are not an all-terrain vehicle, park next to the corrals and do this last stretch on foot.

It will be about 3 kilometres with a considerable slope, but it is certainly worth coming to see this beautiful place because, as we have said, it is one of the quietest and purest places in the whole Natural Park and it is well worth knowing where Padre Tajo gets most of its flow in its beginnings.