Rio Mundo— A Timeless Journey

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Source of the Mundo River, Sierra de Alcaraz, Albacete.


The birth of the Rio Mundo is a show that you should not miss. This tributary of the Segura sprouts hidden in the Albacete mountain range of Alcaraz thanks to an underground aquifer of karst origin that emerges abruptly and is then torn up by a cliff of almost 300 meters. This is what we show you today in our photograph and it is between the towns of Vianos and Riopar, in the natural park of the Calares del Mundo and Sima. If you want to go see it, you should know that in the nearest car park there is only room for 100 cars and on weekends it is usually crowded, so early in the morning if you do not want to queue.
The River Mundo is not named for the noun "world" of the Latin "mundus", but for the adjective of the same language that means "clean", as opposed to "unclean." Its groundwater flows from a cave that is still to be explored, since to date only 30 kilometers of the 60 that it can have according to experts have been traveled. Nor is it known with certainty why the “blowouts” of water that occur in winter are unleashed by unleashing an uncontrollable flow with a thunderous sound, although it seems clear that they are related to a change in temperature and pressure, since they always occur after a long period of rains followed by a sharp decrease in thermometers.

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