Translated into English, this mean "the big golden head". It is the perfect place to climb in the summer, as it is in shade until 3pm. Of course do not go there in winter.

Thanks to Maria Diaz Garcia.

Chris Craggs describes this as the first mountain on your left as you travel up the motorway from Alicante towards Benidorm. He describes one 7 pitch F5 route on the west face but adds that there are many other traditional routes. The latest Rockfax has a few more details. They cover a few long mountain routes that require trad gear as well as a range of rock hard single pitch sport routes.

There are now a couple of topos to this mountain on the web:

Thanks to David Mora Garcia for this pointer.

Here are some tips for Via Gene kindly supplied by Chris Heald who did the route recently:

The Chris Craggs info is generally good. What I would add is-

Access-
The track is not driveable for as far as Chris Craggs recommends-even in a hire car. Instead drive along the track for about 1/1.5k and park on the left just before a steep and very rocky section of track. Walk along the track to the first house on the left (ex hermitage?). 3km in total..............

The route-
-At the end of pitch 2 there is now a peg aand new bolt.
-At the top of pitch 4 there is an abseil sstation at the base of the wall on the right.
-Pitch 5 - Move up...a short distance and ggo left to the bottom of a groove seamed with black rock. Keep traversing left into a smoother groove................

The descent-
-For the abseil, as described, double ropess are recommended. The ground can then be reached in two abseils. The lower part of the abseil wall is very steep and I would not want to be setting up on "two bolt hangers" on this lower wall.
-The scree descent takes about ten minutes,, but is very rough. We didn't find a "path" down it.
-There may now be an alternative descent. AAt the col there is a new looking chain on the amphitheatre side. From this you could abseil into the amphitheatre( NB We did not go down this way, so I do not know how far it would be.)
At the bottom of the amphitheatre is a large single tree on the edge. Do a short abseil from this to the chain/abseil station near the top of pitch 4. From here abseil left (looking out) down slabs to the ground.

Thanks to Chris Heald for the photos and all these details

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